Battle of Laredo
During the American Civil War, Laredo was a main route to export cotton to Mexico on behalf of the Confederate States. On March 18, 1864, Major Alfred Holt led a union army of about 200 men from Brownsville, Texas to destroy 5,000 bales of cotton stacked at the San AgustÃn Plaza. Colonel Santos Benavides commanded 42 men and repelled three union attacks at Zacate Creek in what is known as the Battle of Laredo.
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