Seeking revenge for United States Army's January 24 defeat at the hands of a Mexican-national militia of Hispanos (acting as Mexican nationals) and their Puebloan allies at First Battle of Mora, Capt.

[1]: 141 On February 1, approximately 200 United States troops led by Captain Jesse I. Morin marched to Mora armed with one[2] or possibly two howitzer cannons, the week after a failed January 24, 1847, expedition by Capt.

The Americans then attacked on foot; the battle was short, marked by skirmishing in the dirt streets of Mora, but the rebels did not give up until the town was in ruins,[3] despite having little defense – or effect.

A February 15, 1847, US government proclamation wrote that the US Army had burned the Upper and Lower Mora (misspelled "Moro") to the ground,[2] This battle marked the end of one campaign of the Taos Revolt.

Eyewitness Lewis Hector Garrard wrote in 1850 of the trial:[6] It certainly did appear to be a great assumption of the part of the Americans to conquer a country and then arraign the revolting inhabitants for treason.