GeoCoords:
Latitude: 26.083646000000
Longitude: -97.870314000000
Longitude: -97.870314000000
County:
- Hidalgo
Date:
February 4, 1860
Time Period:
Description:
Texas Rangers encounter Mexican insurgents led by Juan Cortina on the Rio Grande at La Bolsa Bend, 12 miles southwest of present-day Harlingen. Fighting ensues on both sides of the river as a number of rangers cross into Mexico. The rangers reportedly kill 29 Mexicans and wound 40 others, sustaining one killed and four wounded of their own.
Event Type:
Citation:
John Salmon Ford, Rip Ford’s Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 282-287.
Juan Cortina Original Title: Juan Cortina
Image Type: Photographic print
Collection: Southern Methodist University, DeGolyer Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Image Viewed: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/jtx/id/276
Image Accessed: May 15, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 26.083646000000
Longitude: -97.870314000000
Longitude: -97.870314000000
County:
- Hidalgo
Date:
February 4, 1860
Event Description:
Texas Rangers encounter Mexican insurgents led by Juan Cortina on the Rio Grande at La Bolsa Bend, 12 miles southwest of present-day Harlingen. Fighting ensues on both sides of the river as a number of rangers cross into Mexico. The rangers reportedly kill 29 Mexicans and wound 40 others, sustaining one killed and four wounded of their own.
Event Type:
Citation:
John Salmon Ford, Rip Ford’s Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 282-287.
Juan Cortina Original Title: Juan Cortina
Image Type: Photographic print
Collection: Southern Methodist University, DeGolyer Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Image Viewed: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/jtx/id/276
Image Accessed: May 15, 2019