...ot reduce that work, in which Canby was quietly awaiting him, with his field-pieces. In order to compel this adversary, whom he could neither attack nor leave behind him with impunity, to come out, Sibley tried, by a bold manoeuvre, to menace his communications with Albuquerque and Santa Fe. On the right bank of the Rio Grande, facing Fort Craig, there is a succession of sand-banks extending from the ...