The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
While Don Juan Bautista de Anza was attempting to resolve conflicts with the Indians in New Mexico, other major circumstances or events were occurring in the United States. The most important one. The Revolutionary War of Independence, in which the Continental Army led by General George Washington was fighting the Red Coats troops of the British Army.
In the time Juan Bautista de Anza was trying to control and defeat the Comanche Native Indians that had been raiding New Mexico towns such as Taos, the Revolutionary War was on its second year of fighting, and one year later after the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776.
