History of the War with MexicoDodd, Mead & Company, 1883 - 328 strani |
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Agua Nueva American troops Arista arms arrived artillery assault attack battalion battery battle battle of Resaca battle-field brigade Buena Vista California camp capital Captain captured chaparral CHAPTER charge Chihuahua Churubusco citizens Colonel Doniphan column command Commodore Congress Cruz defence desert dragoons El Paso enemy enemy's engaged eral expedition fight fire five hundred flag fled foes Fort Brown fortifications fought garrison governor guns hill horses hostile hundred and fifty Indian infantry inhabitants intrenchments Kearney killed Lieutenant loss Matamoras ment Mexi Mexican army Mexican cavalry Mexican Congress Mexican forces Mexican Government Mexico miles military Missouri Monterey mountains nation Navajo night officers ordered Paso peace plain Point Isabel ravine regiment Republic retreat Rio Grande river road route Saltillo Santa Anna Santa Fé Scott sent shot slavery soldiers surrender Taylor territory Texan Texas thousand tion town Twiggs United Vera Cruz victory volunteers wagons wounded
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Stran 74 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Stran 76 - You may assure the people of those provinces that it is the wish and design of the United States to provide for them a free government with the least possible delay, similar to that which exists in our Territories. They will then be called on to exercise the rights of freemen in electing their own representatives to the Territorial Legislature.
Stran 93 - This is our war. We have more right to complain of you for interfering in our war, than you have to quarrel with us for continuing a war we had begun long before you got here. If you will act justly, .you will allow us to settle our own differences.
Stran 171 - It is with deep sensibility that the commanding general finds himself separated from the troops he so long commanded. To those corps, regular and volunteers, who have shared with him the active services of the field, he feels the attachment due to such associations, while to those who are making their first campaign, he must express his regret that he cannot participate with them in its eventful scenes. To all, both officers and men, he extends...
Stran 23 - Should Mexico assemble a large body of troops on the Rio Grande, and cross it with a considerable force, such a movement must be regarded as an invasion of the United States, and the commencement of hostilities.
Stran 166 - While I was stationed with our left wing in one of the forts, on the evening of the 21st, I saw a Mexican woman busily engaged in carrying bread and water to the wounded men of both armies. I saw this ministering angel raise the head of a wounded man, give him water and food, and then carefully bind up his wound with a handkerchief she took from her own head. After having exhausted her supplies, she went back to her own house to get more bro.id and water for others.
Stran 297 - The United States do furthermore discharge the Mexican Republic from all claims of citizens of the United States, not heretofore decided against the Mexican Government, which may have arisen previously to the date of the signature of this treaty: which discharge shall be final and perpetual, whether the said claims be rejected or be allowed by the Board of Commissioners provided for in the following Article, and...
Stran 187 - But the noble Mexic women still their holy task pursued, Through that long, dark night of sorrow, worn and faint and lacking food ; Over weak and suffering brothers, with...
Stran 75 - ... cause the worship of those belonging to it to be undisturbed and their religious rights in the amplest manner preserved to them; also to protect the persons and property of all quiet and peaceable inhabitants within its boundaries against their enemies the...
Stran 76 - It is the wish and intention of the United States to provide for New Mexico a free government, with the least possible delay, similar to those in the United States, and the people of New Mexico will then be called on to exercise the rights of freemen in electing their own representatives to the territorial legislature; but until this can be done the laws hitherto in...