Sentence examples for mexican land from inspiring English sources

Cape Catoche is said to have been the first Mexican land visited by Spaniards, in 1517.

It became part of the Rancho de las Pulgas, a Mexican land grant established in 1800.

The city was laid out in 1870 in part on a section of Rancho Jurupa, a Mexican land grant of 1838.

After the mission lands were secularized, a Mexican land grant of 1841 deeded to Raimundo Olivas the area that became Rancho San Miguel.

Renting fallow Mexican land, he enclosed his fields in fences and installed drip-irrigation systems for the filtered water he uses.

Early sheriff departments in the American southwest were just white men who banded together to enforce the theft of Mexican land and patrol the US-Mexico border.

Telcel began life as a unit of Teléfonos de Mexico, known as Telmex, the dominant Mexican land-line telephone company, which Mr. Slim has controlled for more than a decade.

He and a partner set up their first cow camp along the Santa Gertrudis Creek in South Texas in 1853, buying land from Mexican land-grant heirs, recruiting vaqueros and rounding up mustangs and wild longhorns.

Abolitionists saw the war as an attempt by the slave states to extend slavery and enhance their power with the creation of additional slave states out of the soon-to-be-acquired Mexican lands.

The nation's diffuse pattern of property ownership, which included the bestowing of millions of acres of free farmland on newly arrived immigrants, many brought west by the railroad, was made possible through the expropriation and redistribution of Native American and Mexican lands.

The tradition that the first settlers thought of themselves as prospective world leaders (or at least as guides to the rest of the world) flowed directly into the conviction that the United States had not only the right but the duty to take Indian and Mexican lands in its advance across the continent; it has been seen as a precursor to the 19th century idea of "Manifest Destiny".