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 693
... later to inspire Doniphan to meet it by march- ing down the New Mexican Rio Grande to El Paso and from there to Chihuahua City . Naval forces in the Pacific were to capture the coast of California , as General Kearny went west from New ...
... later to inspire Doniphan to meet it by march- ing down the New Mexican Rio Grande to El Paso and from there to Chihuahua City . Naval forces in the Pacific were to capture the coast of California , as General Kearny went west from New ...
Page 726
... later observed . It was a gesture of defense that would yet prove convenient for the invaders who had bought him off . Then in a great sweat to shift responsibility from his own shoulders to those who later could be vilified as traitors ...
... later observed . It was a gesture of defense that would yet prove convenient for the invaders who had bought him off . Then in a great sweat to shift responsibility from his own shoulders to those who later could be vilified as traitors ...
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... later - at Smith's Ranch , the site of the village of Franklin near Magoffinsville , and was to know two other adjacent locations before its final one . Upriver near Mesilla , Fort Fillmore was erected on the east bank in 1851 , and ...
... later - at Smith's Ranch , the site of the village of Franklin near Magoffinsville , and was to know two other adjacent locations before its final one . Upriver near Mesilla , Fort Fillmore was erected on the east bank in 1851 , and ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
Copyright | |
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