Great River: Mexico and the United StatesA distinguished historian examines the development of the region and surveys the amalgamation of the aboriginal Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American civilizations. |
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... Camargo and the sea . Regular navigation was more difficult farther upstream , though later in the year the Major Brown arrived at Laredo with supplies for a new army station there ; but before she could cast off to go downstream , the ...
... Camargo and the sea . Regular navigation was more difficult farther upstream , though later in the year the Major Brown arrived at Laredo with supplies for a new army station there ; but before she could cast off to go downstream , the ...
Page 715
... Camargo when all the energy of the army was needed for the coming campaign in the interior , hundreds of men said good- bye and returned downriver on the steamboats that were headed for the Gulf to bring up more troops and supplies . Of ...
... Camargo when all the energy of the army was needed for the coming campaign in the interior , hundreds of men said good- bye and returned downriver on the steamboats that were headed for the Gulf to bring up more troops and supplies . Of ...
Page 757
... Camargo , General Taylor was not there , and there was still no word from him directly . It was the staff at Camargo who gave General Scott the infor- mation that General Taylor , far from coming to meet him at the Rio Grande as ordered ...
... Camargo , General Taylor was not there , and there was still no word from him directly . It was the staff at Camargo who gave General Scott the infor- mation that General Taylor , far from coming to meet him at the Rio Grande as ordered ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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