Santa Anna and the Empire. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

The Troubles of the New Mexican Empire. Share full article. Sept. 14, 1864. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 14, 1864, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

After the Mexican War of Independence, the province of New Mexico joined the First Mexican Empire in 1821 as part of New Spain. Mexico ceded the United States its northern territories, including ...