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class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">State</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">County</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Costilla_County,_Colorado" title="Costilla County, Colorado">Costilla</a> / <a href="/wiki/Huerfano_County,_Colorado" title="Huerfano County, Colorado">Huerfano</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sangre_de_Cristo_Pass" title="Sangre de Cristo Pass">Sangre de Cristo Pass</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A Spanish <a href="/wiki/Military_fort" class="mw-redirect" title="Military fort">military fort</a> was constructed and occupied in 1819 near <a href="/wiki/Sangre_de_Cristo_Pass" title="Sangre de Cristo Pass">Sangre de Cristo Pass</a> in the present U.S. <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">State of Colorado</a> to protect the Spanish colony of <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe_de_Nuevo_M%C3%A9xico" title="Santa Fe de Nuevo México">Santa Fe de Nuevo México</a> from a possible invasion from the United States. The fort was the only Spanish settlement in present-day Colorado. The site of this fort is known today as the <b>Spanish Fort</b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Fort_(Colorado)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle" title="René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle">René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle</a> claimed the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a> and its entire <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River#Watershed" title="Mississippi River">drainage basin</a> for <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis XIV of France">Louis XIV of France</a> in 1682, he was unaware that the southwestern reaches of the basin extended into territory claimed by <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain" title="Charles II of Spain">Charles II of Spain</a> for the <a href="/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">New Spain</a> colony of <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe_de_Nuevo_M%C3%A9jico" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Fe de Nuevo Méjico">Santa Fe de Nuevo Méjico</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> French and Spanish traders first encountered one another in 1739 along the <a href="/wiki/Arkansas_River" title="Arkansas River">Arkansas River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The conflicting claims of France and Spain to the upper Arkansas River basin were resolved in 1762 when <a href="/wiki/Louis_XV_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis XV of France">Louis XV of France</a> transferred the French colony of <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_France)" title="Louisiana (New France)">La Louisiane</a> to <a href="/wiki/Charles_III_of_Spain" title="Charles III of Spain">Charles III of Spain</a> with the secret <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Fontainebleau_(1762)" title="Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762)">Treaty of Fontainebleau</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The conflict between France and Spain was reignited in 1800 when <a href="/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_Bonaparte" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoléon Bonaparte">Napoléon Bonaparte</a> demanded that <a href="/wiki/Charles_IV_of_Spain" title="Charles IV of Spain">Charles IV of Spain</a> return the Spanish colony of <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" title="Louisiana (New Spain)">Luisiana</a> to the <a href="/wiki/French_First_Republic" title="French First Republic">French Republic</a> with the secret <a href="/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso" title="Third Treaty of San Ildefonso">Third Treaty of San Ildefonso</a>. Napoléon then sold La Louisiane to the United States with the <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Louisiana Purchase Treaty">Louisiana Purchase Treaty</a> of 1803. The United States maintained the claim of France to the entire Mississippi basin, while Spain asserted its claim to the southwestern portion of the basin. </p><p>In 1806, a <a href="/wiki/Pike_Expedition" title="Pike Expedition">U.S. Army reconnaissance expedition</a> led by Captain <a href="/wiki/Zebulon_Pike" title="Zebulon Pike">Zebulon Pike</a> explored the upper Arkansas River. In January 1807, the expedition left the <a href="/wiki/Arkansas_Headwaters_Recreation_Area" title="Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area">upper Arkansas Valley</a> and crossed the treacherous snow-covered <a href="/wiki/Sangre_de_Cristo_Range" title="Sangre de Cristo Range">Sangre de Cristo Range</a> into the <a href="/wiki/San_Luis_Valley" title="San Luis Valley">San Luis Valley</a>, the undisputed territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. On February 26, 1807, Pike and his expedition were arrested by Spanish cavalrymen from <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico" title="Santa Fe, New Mexico">Santa Fe</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Fort_(Colorado)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1819, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_governors_of_New_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish governors of New Mexico">Spanish Governor</a> <a href="/wiki/Facundo_Melgares" title="Facundo Melgares">Facundo Melgares</a> ordered the construction of a military fort near Sangre de Cristo Pass to block a possible invasion of Santa Fe de Nuevo México from the United States. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains and Sangre de Cristo Pass divide the <a href="/wiki/Rio_Grande" title="Rio Grande">Rio Grande</a> basin from the Arkansas River basin, a part of the greater Mississippi River basin. The fort was occupied by a detachment of approximately one hundred soldiers who patrolled the area in search of <a href="/wiki/Ute_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Ute Indians">Ute Indians</a> and foreigners. The fort was abandoned in 1821 after the <a href="/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty" title="Adams–Onís Treaty">Adams–Onís Treaty</a> took effect redefining the border between Louisiana and New Mexico. The new border was defined as the <a href="/wiki/100th_meridian_west" title="100th meridian west">100th meridian west</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Red_River_of_the_South" title="Red River of the South">Red River</a> (the border between Spanish province of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Texas" title="Spanish Texas">Tejas</a> and the U.S. <a href="/wiki/Arkansas_Territory" title="Arkansas Territory">Territory of Arkansaw</a>) north to the Arkansas River, then west along the river to its headwaters (at the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Divide_of_the_Americas" title="Continental Divide of the Americas">Continental Divide of the Americas</a>), thence directly north to the <a href="/wiki/42nd_parallel_north" title="42nd parallel north">42nd parallel north</a>, then west along the parallel to the Pacific Ocean. On August 24, 1821, <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferdinand VII of Spain">Ferdinand VII of Spain</a> finally recognized the independence of <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> with the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_C%C3%B3rdoba" title="Treaty of Córdoba">Treaty of Córdoba</a>. Governor Melgares and other Spanish officials in New Mexico declared their allegiance to the new Mexican government. On January 12, 1828, the United States and Mexico signed the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Limits_(Mexico%E2%80%93United_States)" title="Treaty of Limits (Mexico–United States)">Treaty of Limits</a> affirming the boundaries set by the Adams–Onís Treaty. The region would remain at peace until May 13, 1846, when the <a href="/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">United States declared war on Mexico</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Fort_(Colorado)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Colorado" title="History of Colorado">History of Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_New_Mexico" title="History of New Mexico">History of New Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sangre_de_Cristo_Mountains" title="Sangre de Cristo Mountains">Sangre de Cristo Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Colorado_history" title="Timeline of Colorado history">Timeline of Colorado history</a></li></ul> <style 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Francis Parkman, <i>La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West</i>, France and England in North America, vol. 3 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1869), 7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">“Extract of the Journal of the Expedition of the Mallet Brothers to Santa Fe, 1739-1740.” www.americanjourneys.org/aj-092/summary/index.asp, accessed 1 Dec 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Herbermann, Charles. <i>The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church</i>. 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in Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Territory" title="Colorado Territory">Colorado Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prehistory_of_Colorado" title="Prehistory of Colorado">Prehistory of Colorado</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Trading posts and<br />civilian forts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Forts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bent%27s_New_Fort" title="Bent's New Fort">Bent's New Fort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bent%27s_Old_Fort_National_Historic_Site" title="Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site">Bent's Old Fort</a> (Fort William)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Pueblo_(Pueblo,_Colorado)" class="mw-redirect" title="El Pueblo (Pueblo, Colorado)">El Pueblo</a> (Fort Pueblo)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Davy_Crockett" title="Fort Davy Crockett">Fort Davy Crockett</a> (Fort Misery)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Huerfano" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Huerfano">Fort Huerfano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Jackson_(Colorado)" title="Fort Jackson (Colorado)">Fort Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Le_Duc" title="Fort Le Duc">Fort Le Duc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Lupton_(Colorado)" title="Fort Lupton (Colorado)">Fort Lupton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Mary_B" title="Fort Mary B">Fort Mary B</a> (Fort Meribeh)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Namaqua" title="Fort Namaqua">Fort Namaqua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Saint_Vrain" title="Fort Saint Vrain">Fort Saint Vrain</a> (Fort George)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Uncompahgre" title="Fort Uncompahgre">Fort Uncompahgre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Vasquez" title="Fort Vasquez">Fort Vasquez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Wicked" title="Fort Wicked">Fort Wicked</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_Fort" class="mw-redirect" title="Francisco Fort">Francisco Fort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milk_Fort" title="Milk Fort">Milk Fort</a> (Fort Leche)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Major events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Pueblo_Massacre" title="Fort Pueblo Massacre">Fort Pueblo Massacre</a> (1854)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_War" title="Colorado War">Colorado War</a> (1863–1865)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Ranch_massacre" title="American Ranch massacre">American Ranch massacre</a> (1865)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">U.S. and Spanish<br />military forts</th><td 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(1868)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Summit_Springs" title="Battle of Summit Springs">Battle of Summit Springs</a> (1869)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meeker_Massacre" title="Meeker Massacre">Meeker Massacre</a> (1879)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountain_men" title="List of mountain men">List of mountain men</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pike%27s_Stockade" title="Pike's Stockade">Pike's Stockade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Historical_trails_of_Colorado_sidebar" title="Template:Historical trails of Colorado sidebar">Historical trails of Colorado</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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