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The claims had nothing in common with the historic Spanish and Mexican subdivisions, which placed most of that territory with Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico. What was the Texas Republic's formal basis for claiming all that New Mexico territory and for extending southwest to the Rio Grande. Usually a claim at least has a legal fig leaf of some sort.