Battle of Resaca de la Palma
{'<entity_0>': 'Battle of Resaca de la Palma', '<entity_1>': 'Mexican-American War', '<entity_2>': '09 May 1846', '<entity_3>': 'Brownsville', '<entity_4>': 'Texas'}
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The <entity_0> was one of the early engagements of the <entity_1>, where the United States Army under General Zachary Taylor engaged the retreating forces of the Mexican Ejército del Norte ("Army of the North") under General Mariano Arista on <entity_2>. Following the Mexican defeat at the Battle of Palo Alto, Arista on the morning of <entity_2> moved his forces to a more defensible position along a resaca, known as Resaca de la Guerrero to the Mexicans but as Resaca de la Palma to the Americans Recalling his experiences at the Siege of Fort <entity_4>, he positioned his forces along the twelve foot deep and two hundred foot wide resaca, three miles from the Rio Grande, by 10 a.m Arista placed most of his infantry in the ravine, thickly forested on either side, to negate the effectiveness of Taylor's artillery, with the 6th and 10th Infantry, Sappers, 2nd Light Infantry and 1st Infantry being placed east of the road, and the 2nd Infantry, Tampico Battalion and 4th Infantry west of the road–60 Covering the flanks in the rear were the Presidiales, the light cavalry, and the 7th and 8th Regiments, and two artillery batteries on the south bank. The Resaca De La Palma Battlefield is in the city limits of present-day <entity_3>, <entity_4>, but is part of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park.
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