Sketches of the Campaign in Northern Mexico: In Eighteen Hundred Forty-six and SevenFor the author by G. P. Putnam & Company, 1853 - 336 էջ |
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Sketches of the Campaign in Northern Mexico: In Eighteen Hundred Forty-six ... Luther Giddings Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1853 |
Sketches of the Campaign in Northern Mexico: In Eighteen Hundred Forty-six ... Luther Giddings Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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1st Kentucky regiment 1st Ohio regiment advance Agua Nueva American Ampudia arms army arrival artillery attack battalion battery battle battle of Monterey beautiful Bishop's Castle brigade Buena Vista Camargo camp Camp Belknap campaign Captain captured cavalry Cerralvo chaparral citadel Colonel column command commenced companies compelled corps courage defense Diabolo distance encamped enemy enemy's field fire force gallant garrison guns Hamer Head-Quarters hights hill honor horses hundred infantry Lancers Lieutenant Luis de Potosi Marin Matamoros ment Mexican Mexican Congress Mexico military Monterey morning mountain mules night officers party pass PEDRO DE AMPUDIA plain Plaza position possessed Rangers ranks reached rear Rinconada road route Saltillo San Domingo San Luis Santa Anna scene Sierra Madre Soldada soldiers soon spirit stream suffered Taylor Teneria tents Texan tion town troops Twiggs Urrea valley Vera Cruz victory volunteers wagons walls Worth Worth's division wounded
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Էջ 80 - Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn ; And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance.
Էջ 139 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Էջ 56 - Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled ; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee ! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled ; and when them shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Էջ 205 - As the legitimate result of the operations before this place, and the present position of the contending armies, it is agreed that the city, the fortifications, cannon, the munitions of war, and all other public property, with the undermentioned exceptions, be surrendered to the commanding general of the United States forces now at Monterey.
Էջ 211 - ... motive in moving forward with very limited supplies had been, to increase the inducements of the Mexican Government to negotiate for peace. Whatever may be the actual views or disposition of the Mexican rulers or of General Santa Anna, it is not unknown to the Government that I had the very best reason for believing the statement of General Ampudia to be true. It was my opinion at the time of the convention, and it has not been changed, that the liberal treatment of the Mexican army, and the...
Էջ 210 - In regard to the temporary cessation of hostilities, the fact that we are not at this moment, within eleven days of the termination of the period fixed by the convention, prepared to move forward in force, is a sufficient explanation of the military reasons which dictated this suspension of arms. It paralyzed the enemy during a period when, from the want of necessary means, we could not possibly move. I desire distinctly to state, and to call the attention of the authorities to the fact, that, with...
Էջ viii - Every addition to the territory of the American Union has given homes to European destitution and gardens to European want.
Էջ 206 - That all doubts as to the meaning of any of the preceding articles, shall be solved by an equitable construction, and on principles of liberality to the retiring army. ART. 9. That the Mexican flag, when struck at the citadel, may be saluted by its own battery. WJ WORTH, Brigadier General, United States Army. J. PINKNEY HENDERSON, Major Gen. command
Էջ 210 - It was discovered that his principal magazine, containing an immense amount of powder, was in the cathedral, completely exposed to our shells from two directions. The explosion of this mass of powder, which must have ultimately resulted from a continuance of the bombardment, would have been infinitely disastrous, involving the destruction not only of Mexican troops, but of non-combatants and even our own people, had we pressed the attack.
Էջ 206 - That the Mexican armed forces retire within seven days from this date, beyond the line formed by the pass of the Rinconada, the city of Linares, and San Fernando de Pusos.