Rio Grande River

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“He was graduated with the second honors of his class in 1846; assigned to duty with a company of the Engineers, and ordered before the close⟳ of the year into active service on the line of the Rio Grande River.”

“The Zuma and Manzo Indians of the area were in the habit of going to the missions in the Spanish provinces below the Rio Grande River to solicit the padres to come⟳ to teach⟳ and baptize them in their villages.”

“When Mexico gained its independence from Spain, the new country also obtained control⟳ over the lands North of the Rio Grande River that had been previously held by the Spanish.”

“Leaving Acoma, the captain and his soldiers advanced north-east, reaching the Rio Grande River on 7 September.”

“In the immediate post-Cold War moment, New Mexico’s military role only expanded in importance, with formal calls for the twenty-first-century U.S. nuclear weapons complex to be consolidated along the Rio Grande River (Secretary of Energy Advisory Board⟳ Task Force⟳ 1995).”

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