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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... thousand square miles . What - intelligent citizens often thought of it - what would happen if an armed invasion , say three or four thousand strong , should appear from the United States ? Even if the whole population of forty thousand ...
... thousand square miles . What - intelligent citizens often thought of it - what would happen if an armed invasion , say three or four thousand strong , should appear from the United States ? Even if the whole population of forty thousand ...
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... thousand citizens had met four thousand one hundred and twenty Mexicans in the valley of the Sacramento Creek north of Chihuahua City at noon , and after a fight lasting three and a half hours , had defeated them . On the next day he ...
... thousand citizens had met four thousand one hundred and twenty Mexicans in the valley of the Sacramento Creek north of Chihuahua City at noon , and after a fight lasting three and a half hours , had defeated them . On the next day he ...
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... thousand were on guard at Querétaro , the temporary capital ; while the American forces numbered 43,059 , of whom thirty - two thousand were under Scott's immediate command in support of his position at Mexico City . All through the ...
... thousand were on guard at Querétaro , the temporary capital ; while the American forces numbered 43,059 , of whom thirty - two thousand were under Scott's immediate command in support of his position at Mexico City . All through the ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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