Service Afloat and Ashore During the Mexican WarW.H. Moore & Company, 1851 - 480 ページ |
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advance afterward already American appearance approach arms army arrived artillery attack battery battle become called capital Captain carried cause charge chief city of Mexico civil Colonel command Commodore consequence continued Cortez course covered Cruz directed dispatched division effect enemy enemy's entered entirely fact fire five force formed forward four gallant give ground half hand head height honor hour houses hundred land latter leaving less look Mexican Mexico miles military morning mountains moved movement nature necessary never night officers operations party passed peace persons plain position possession present president Puebla quarters reached reader rear received regard respect road Santa Anna Scott seemed seen sent side soon taken Texas thousand tion town troops turned United valley various village whole Worth
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210 ページ - Of course, there was but one thing to be done, and that was, "to haul down the French flag and hoist my own, which was done in an instant, when we mutually hailed.
412 ページ - After so many victories, we might, with but little additional loss, have occupied the capital the same evening. But Mr. Trist, commissioner, &c., as Well as myself, had been admonished by the best friends of peace — intelligent neutrals and some American residents — against precipitation ; lest, by wantonly driving away the government and others, dishonored, we might scatter the elements of peace, excite a spirit of national desperation, and thus indefinitely postpone the hope of accommodation.
54 ページ - States, it is from a consciousness of their notorious incapability to form and constitute an independent nation, without their having changed their situation, or acquired any right to separate themselves from their mother country. His Excellency the Provisional President, resting on this deep conviction, is obliged to prevent an aggression, unprecedented in the annals of the world, from being consummated ; and if it be indispensable for the Mexican nation to seek security for its rights at the expense...
52 ページ - Texas to abolish slavery eventually, and under proper conditions, throughout the Republic. But, although we earnestly desire and feel it to be our duty to promote such a consummation, we shall not interfere unduly, or with an improper assumption of authority, with either party" (either Mexico or Texas) "in order to ensure the adoption of such a course.
430 ページ - Moncey could hardly have expected to succeed against the town of Valencia ; for, to use Napoleon's words, " a city with eighty thousand inhabitants, barricadoed streets, and artillery placed at the gates, cannot be TAKEN BY THE COLLAR.
461 ページ - Cosme gate (custom-house) between him and the great square in front of the cathedral and palace — the heart of the city ; and that barrier, it was known, could not, by daylight, resist our siege guns thirty minutes.
54 ページ - Mexican territory, the undersigned, in the name of his nation, and now for them, protests in the most solemn manner against such an aggression ; and he moreover declares, by express order of his government, that on sanction being given by the Executive of the Union to the incorporation of Texas into the United States, he will consider his mission ended, seeing that, as the Secretary of State will have learned, the Mexican government is resolved to declare war as soon as it receives intimation of...
462 ページ - The capital, however, was not taken by any one or two corps, but by the talent, the science, the gallantry, the prowess of this entire army. In the glorious...
417 ページ - SIR : — Too much blood has already been shed in this unnatural war between the two great republics of this continent.
360 ページ - ... to the same two coteries. False credit may, no doubt, be obtained at home by such despicable self-puffings, and malignant exclusion of others ; but at the expense of the just esteem and consideration of all honorable officers who love their country, their profession, and the truth of history.