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 455
... knew inner conflict , and divided opinion , and the centrifugal tendency to fly apart through partisan loyalties to opposed individuals or beliefs . But the Mexican government at its birth knew these tendencies to extremity and faced ...
... knew inner conflict , and divided opinion , and the centrifugal tendency to fly apart through partisan loyalties to opposed individuals or beliefs . But the Mexican government at its birth knew these tendencies to extremity and faced ...
Page 546
... knew that " the army is more useful and necessary on the frontier , as our unfortunate history proves " -for they were mindful of what had lately happened in Texas . They knew that the United States concentrated most of her standing ...
... knew that " the army is more useful and necessary on the frontier , as our unfortunate history proves " -for they were mindful of what had lately happened in Texas . They knew that the United States concentrated most of her standing ...
Page 754
... knew that General Scott was on his way to the Rio Grande to confer with General Taylor , and to lay down the final arrangements for a landing of American troops at Vera- cruz to invade Mexico from the east coast . It was hard to know ...
... knew that General Scott was on his way to the Rio Grande to confer with General Taylor , and to lay down the final arrangements for a landing of American troops at Vera- cruz to invade Mexico from the east coast . It was hard to know ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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