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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-641
TO PROVIDE FOR THE BOUNDARY OF THE PALO ALTO BATTLEFIELD NA-
TIONAL HISTORIC PARK TO BE ADJUSTED, TO AUTHORIZE THE DONA-
TION OF LAND TO THE UNITED STATES FOR ADDITION TO THAT HIS-
TORIC PARK, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
DECEMBER 14, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 4139]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4139) to provide for the boundary of the Palo Alto Battle-
field National Historic Park to be adjusted, to authorize the dona-
tion of land to the United States for addition to that historic park,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 4139 is to provide for the boundary of the
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park to be adjusted, to au-
thorize the donation of land to the United States for addition to
that historic park, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The U.S. annexation of the Republic of Texas as the 28th state
entailed an unresolved border dispute. Mexico, which had not rec-
ognized the independence of Texas in the first place, considered the
Nueces River to be the southern border of what it considered to be
its Texas province. Texas, having recently won its independence,
considered its southern border to be further south, at the Rio
Grande.
Driven by the beliefs of Manifest Destiny and the desire to estab-
lish the Rio Grande River as the southern boundary of the new
state of Texas, U.S. General Zachary Taylor ordered the construc-
tion of Fort Texas, also called Fort Taylor, on the north bank of the
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