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 590
... volunteers and Woll with eight hundred men . The Mexicans lost sixty killed and many wounded , the Texans ten wounded and none killed . “ Huzza ! Huzza for Texas ! " cried the Texan commander in writing after the fight . But Texas ...
... volunteers and Woll with eight hundred men . The Mexicans lost sixty killed and many wounded , the Texans ten wounded and none killed . “ Huzza ! Huzza for Texas ! " cried the Texan commander in writing after the fight . But Texas ...
Page 705
... volunteers landed to find confusion . As one regiment arrived another pulled out for upriver , vacating an unsanitary camp . The volunteers elected their own officers , few of whom had mili- tary experience . Command was infirm , and ...
... volunteers landed to find confusion . As one regiment arrived another pulled out for upriver , vacating an unsanitary camp . The volunteers elected their own officers , few of whom had mili- tary experience . Command was infirm , and ...
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... volunteers . He was " agonized " by what he had heard from reliable witnesses . " If a tenth of what is said be true " the volunteers " have committed atrocities - horrors - in Mexico , sufficient to make Heaven weep , & every American ...
... volunteers . He was " agonized " by what he had heard from reliable witnesses . " If a tenth of what is said be true " the volunteers " have committed atrocities - horrors - in Mexico , sufficient to make Heaven weep , & every American ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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