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New Mexico Colonel Stephen W. Kearny was placed of 1,700 soldiers stationed at Leavenworth, Kansas . Kearney was promoted to Brigadier General and designated the force the ''Army of the West''. Kearny moved into present day New Mexico and Siezed Santa Fe establishing a military government there. Kearny dispatched forces under Alexander Doniphan for further opperations in New Mexico while Kearny with the remaining forces of the army proceeded overland towards California , guided by Kit Carson . Colonel Sterling Price was left in command of U.S. troops in New Mexico. These forces left behind in New Mexico were still regarded as part of ''Army of the West''. Price was able to successfully put down the Taos Revolt in the early part of 1847 . California With just under 200 troops Kearny moved into California and hastily attacked a Californio force at the Battle Of San Pasqual . The battle was costly to the U.S. and Kearny moved on and occupied San Diego where he was joined by naval reinforcements serving as infantry under Commodore Robert F. Stockton . The combined force now numbering 600 dragoons and sailors led by Kearny and Stockton, attacked the Californios at Los Angeles . Winning the battles of Rio San Gabriel and La Mesa the U.S. forces took control of the city on January 10, 1847. Then on January 13, 1847 the Californios surrendered to John C. Fremont and the major fighting in California was over. Chihuahua In late 1846, General Stephen W. Kearney headed west to California. He left three companies of Dragoons to form, with volunteer troops, a srong garrison in New Mexico. Command of this garrison eventually was placed with Colonel Sterling Price . The last major action of the army came in 1848 when Price, recently promoted to the rank of general, invaded the state of Chihuahua and defeated a Mexican force at the Battle Of Santa Cruz De Rosales . This battle occurred after a cease fire and the Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo had been signed. Ironically in 1862 Sterling Price would command another force named Army Of The West , this time fighting against United States during the American Civil War . Order of Battle at Santa Cruz de Rosales
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