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    The Battle of Río Grande was a minor military engagement that took place on 10 September 1879, during the War of the Pacific. A picket of Chilean soldiers...
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    The Battle of Rio Grande City was a military engagement during the Cortina War between pro-Mexican Cortinistas and a group of US Army regulars supported...
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  • appear. They position a portion of their force on the American side of the Rio Grande. Two other columns come up fast south of the river. The Americans and...
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    Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (reporting mark DRGW), often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad,...
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    The Republic of the Rio Grande (Spanish: República del Río Grande) was one of a series of political movements in what was then Mexico which sought to become...
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    Rio Grande City is a city in and the county seat of Starr County, Texas, United States. The population was 15,317 at the time of the 2020 census. The city...
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    The Lower Rio Grande Valley (Spanish: Valle del Río Grande), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning...
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    San Pedro de Atacama (category Communes of Chile)
    Battle of Río Grande was fought in the surroundings. On July 18, 2024 the region suffered a 7.4 magnitude earthquake. According to the 2002 census of...
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    Litoral Department (category Departments of Bolivia)
    Atacama Desert border dispute Consequences of the War of the Pacific Battle of Río Grande Puna de Atacama dispute Landlocked country Anti-Chilean sentiment...
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  • Rio Grande Blood is the tenth studio album by American industrial metal band Ministry, released in 2006. It is their first release through 13th Planet...
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    Cortina Troubles (category Military history of Mexico)
    Cortina retreated up the Rio Grande until on December 27, 1859, Heintzelman and Ford engaged him in the Battle of Rio Grande City. Cortina's forces were...
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    central region of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. In 2020, its population was 283,677 inhabitants in a total area of 1,823 square kilometres...
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    John Salmon Ford (category Members of the Texas Ranger Division)
    Texas Rangers against Juan Cortina in the Battle of Rio Grande City.: 268  In 1861, Ford served as a member of the Secession Convention and initiated a...
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    Rio Grande is a 1950 American romantic Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. It is the third installment of Ford's...
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  • Antonio Canales Rosillo (category Mexican invasions of 1842)
    military officer also known for co-founding the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande. Canales fought in the Apache wars in Mexico and fought under the...
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  • Banda Oriental (category Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata)
    Banda Oriental del Río Uruguay (Eastern Bank), was the name of the South American territories east of the Uruguay River and north of Río de la Plata that...
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  • Rio Grande is a 1952 American Technicolor Western film, directed by Byron Haskin and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a dramatization of the...
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    Río Conchos, and Los Diamantes de Ojinaga.[citation needed] Because of its location on the Río Grande border between Chihuahua and the U.S. state of Texas...
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    International Bridge links it with Río Branco. Uruguay has a Consulate in Jaguarão. List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul IBGE 2020 "Archived copy"...
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    The Battle of Arroyo Grande took place on 6 December 1842 and was a major battle of the Uruguayan Civil War. At Arroyo Grande, the federal forces, or...
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    Nueces River (redirect from Río Nueces)
    agreed to the Rio Grande border within Texas after having lost the Battle of San Jacinto. This contention continued after the annexation of Texas by the...
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    The Rio Grande do Sul Revolt of 1924 was triggered by tenentist rebels from the Brazilian Army and civilian leaders from the Liberating Alliance on 28–29...
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    Fort Brown (category Former installations of the United States Army)
    with John Salmon Ford in the Cortina Troubles, culminating in the Battle of Rio Grande City in 1859. In 1861, Confederate Colonel John "Rip" Ford occupied...
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    also known by his nicknames Cheno Cortina, the Red Robber of the Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Robin Hood, was a Mexican rancher, politician, military leader...
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    present state of Rio Grande do Sul. It was proclaimed on 11 September 1836 by general Antônio de Sousa Neto as a direct consequence of the victory obtained...
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    Brazilian municipality located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. In 2020, its population was 121,335 in a total area of 4,096 km2. It is the seventeenth largest...
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  • The Battle of Jaguarão was fought in the town of Jaguarão in the then province of Rio Grande do Sul, on 27 January 1865, between the Imperial Brazilian...
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    The history of Rio Grande do Sul begins with the arrival of Man in the region, around 12,000 years ago. Its most dramatic changes, however, occurred in...
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    the town of Val Verde at a ford of the Rio Grande in Union-held New Mexico Territory, in what is today the state of New Mexico. It is considered a major...
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    1580. During the colonial era, the Río de la Plata was made the center of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata. The Río de la Plata region, particularly...
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