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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Page 662
... morning came saw that there were new earthworks facing them with a Mexican twelve- pounder siege gun in position . 4 . The Army of the Rio Grande Matamoros seen from the opposite bank in morning light appeared to be embedded in a great ...
... morning came saw that there were new earthworks facing them with a Mexican twelve- pounder siege gun in position . 4 . The Army of the Rio Grande Matamoros seen from the opposite bank in morning light appeared to be embedded in a great ...
Page 669
... morning . The Mexican officers were escorted back to the ferry , and the staff went to work that same after- noon to elevate General Taylor's wishes into a proper dispatch . He wanted it said that as an Army commander he could have no ...
... morning . The Mexican officers were escorted back to the ferry , and the staff went to work that same after- noon to elevate General Taylor's wishes into a proper dispatch . He wanted it said that as an Army commander he could have no ...
Page 673
... morning , said Major Brown , must have thrown over fifteen hundred shots and shells at Fort Texas throughout the day . Remarkably little damage was done to the fort , though one soldier was killed . Even the tents of the Seventh ...
... morning , said Major Brown , must have thrown over fifteen hundred shots and shells at Fort Texas throughout the day . Remarkably little damage was done to the fort , though one soldier was killed . Even the tents of the Seventh ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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