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 758
... leaving him with only eight hundred regulars and less than seven thousand volunteers without battle experience . Six ... leave him to face over twenty thousand men under Santa ... Anna , this was hard to understand - or 758 Book Four ...
... leaving him with only eight hundred regulars and less than seven thousand volunteers without battle experience . Six ... leave him to face over twenty thousand men under Santa ... Anna , this was hard to understand - or 758 Book Four ...
Page 765
... leave town for his own safety . He declined . The rebels made drunken speeches to one another far into night ; and before dawn of the nineteenth were ready to enact their evil dream . The family of Governor Bent were all awakened in the ...
... leave town for his own safety . He declined . The rebels made drunken speeches to one another far into night ; and before dawn of the nineteenth were ready to enact their evil dream . The family of Governor Bent were all awakened in the ...
Page 782
... leave of absence had been granted to him , and boarding the McKee , he wound down to the Gulf and up the beach to Point Isabel , where on Friday , November twenty - sixth , he entered the Monmouth and sailed for New Orleans , a hero's ...
... leave of absence had been granted to him , and boarding the McKee , he wound down to the Gulf and up the beach to Point Isabel , where on Friday , November twenty - sixth , he entered the Monmouth and sailed for New Orleans , a hero's ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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