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santa fe City and capital of the Territory of New Mexico, built among
the Rocky Mountains, on a plain 7047 feet above the sea. It is an old
Spanish Mexican town, about 20 miles east of the Rio Grande del Norte.
The Spaniards were driven out of Santa Fé in 1680 by the Pueblo Indians;
but it was recaptured by the former in 1694, and held by them till the
occupation by Americans in 1846. It was occupied by the Confederates for
several days in 1862.
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