Battle of Carrizo

When

22 May 1861

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

27.00° N, 99.18° W

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

The Battle of Carrizo was an 1861 battle, the only engagement of the Second Cortina War, and the final engagement of the wider Cortina Troubles. Juan Cortina, a Mexican rancher who had previously attacked American settlements in Texas' Rio Grande valley, sacked Carrizo, a settlement that was then the seat of Zapata County on May 22 with about thirty Cortinistas.

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