adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering. My father was a deeply compassionate man. American English: compassionate
Matamoros is a city in Tamaulipas in Mexico. Matamoros is situated on the United States-Mexico border across the Rio Grande River from the city of Brownsville, near where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico. It is one of several major land crossings between the United States and Mexico.
After Santa Anna learned that a force of Texas rebels were heading toward Matamoros in the Matamoros Expedition, he sent General Urrea to make his way north to Matamoros and then to march north along the coast of Texas to stop the Texans.