Life and Services of General Winfield Scott: Including the Siege of Vera Cruz, the Battle of Cerro Gordo, and the Battles in the Valley of Mexico, to the Conclusion of Peace, and His Return to the United StatesA. S. Barnes & Company, 1852 - 538 էջ "This volume embraces a brief account of the Battles in the Valley of Mexico and the civil arrangements there, which have conferred so much glory upon our country, and so much honor and credit upon the distinguished subject of this Memoir."--The preface. |
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Life and Services of General Winfield Scott: Including the Siege of Vera ... Edward Deering Mansfield Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
Life and Services of General Winfield Scott: Including the Siege of Vera ... Edward Deering Mansfield Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
Life and Services of General Winfield Scott: Including the Siege of Vera ... Edward Deering Mansfield Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
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action addressed advance American army arms arrived artillery attack batteries BATTLE OF CERRO battle of Chippewa BATTLE OF CONTRERAS Black-Hawk brigade British Brown campaign Captain capture castle Cerro Gordo Chalco Chapultepec Charleston Cherokees Chippewa Churubusco citizens city of Mexico civil Colonel command commenced Congress Contreras corps court Cruz defences division duty enemy enemy's excitement fire Florida force Fort Erie Fort George friends frontier gallant glory Governor honor hundred Idem Indians infantry Lake Lake Chalco land laws Legislature letter Maine Major-General ment Mexican military militia Molino del Rey nation Niagara Niles Niles's Register officers parties passed patriotic peace position President prisoners Puebla Queenstown received regiment river road Santa Anna scene Scott's Official Report Secretary soldier South Carolina storm success surrender thousand tion treaty troops Twiggs United Vera Cruz victory Virginia volunteers Washington Winfield Scott wounded York
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Էջ 235 - I consider then the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED, AND DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FORMED.
Էջ 314 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Էջ 148 - Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Էջ 133 - ... OUR bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.
Էջ 235 - ... shall be performed to the extent of the powers already vested in me by law, or of...
Էջ 255 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Էջ 301 - That the Cherokee nation may be led to a greater degree of civilization, and to become herdsmen and cultivators, instead of remaining in a state of hunters, the United States; will from time to time furnish gratuitously the said nation with useful implements of husbandry...
Էջ 232 - An Ordinance to Nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws laying duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities.
Էջ 518 - This city, Its Inhabitants, Its churches and religious worship, Its educational establishments and Its private property of all descriptions, are placed under the special safeguard of the faith and honor of the American army.
Էջ 518 - ... and provided, also, that no sentence of a military commission shall be put in execution against any individual belonging to this army, which may not be, according to the nature and degree of the offence, as established by evidence, in conformity with known punishments, in like cases, in some one of the States of the United States of America.