The War with Mexico, 1 tomasMacmillan, 1919 |
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advance Agua Nueva American Ampudia Anna's annexation Apuntes Arista army artillery attack Balbontín Bancroft Bankhead battery battle brigade British Buchanan Calhoun California Camp Castro cavalry Chihuahua claims command Cong Congress Conner consul Cruz declared diary Doniphan dragoons enemy felt fight fire force Fort Brown Frémont guns Hist horses hostilities howitzers infantry Invasión July July 18 June June 18 June 24 Kearny Larkin Letters Bixby Marcy Matamoros Meade Mejía Memoria Mems ment Mexican Mexico México á través miles military minister Monitor Repub Monterey nation Niles officers Pakenham Paredes Parrott Picayune Poinsett political Polk Polk's President probably Quitman Recolls redoubt regiment Relaciones Remins reported Saltillo San Luis Potosí Santa Anna Scott seemed Sept Slidell Smith soldiers Tamaulipas Tampico Taylor Texan Texas Tornel treaty troops United Vera Cruz volunteers wagons Wool Worth wrote
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312 psl. - President will make no effort and use no influence to induce California to become one of the free and independent States of this Union, yet if the People should desire to unite their destiny with ours, they would be received as brethren, whenever this can be done, without affording Mexico just cause of complaint. Their true policy, for the present, in regard to this question, is to let events take their course, unless an attempt should be made to transfer them, without their consent, either to Great...
260 psl. - WE were not many, we who stood Before the iron sleet that day ; Yet many a gallant spirit would Give half his years if but he could Have been with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot it hailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round them wailed Their dying shout at Monterey. And on, still on our column kept, Through walls of flame, its withering way ; Where fell the dead...
182 psl. - As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor, the rights, and the interests of our country.
341 psl. - It is not proposed to control your operations by definite and positive instructions, but you are left to prosecute them as your judgment, under a full view of all the circumstances, shall dictate. The work is before you, and the means provided, or to be provided, for accomplishing it, are committed to you, in the full confidence that you will use them to the best advantage.
144 psl. - Should Mexico assemble a large body of troops on the Rio Grande, and cross it with a considerable force, such a movement must be regarded as an invasion of the United States, and the commencement of hostilities.
183 psl. - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
71 psl. - Territories respectively, also to hire and occupy Houses and Warehouses for the purposes of their commerce, and generally the Merchants and Traders of each Nation respectively shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their Commerce...
131 psl. - The great distance of your squadron, and the difficulty of communicating with you, are the causes for issuing this order. The President hopes, most earnestly, that the peace of the two Countries may not be disturbed. The object of...
95 psl. - To counteract the influence of foreign powers, exerted against the United States in Mexico, and to restore those ancient relations of peace and good will which formerly existed between the governments and the citizens of the sister republics, will be the principal objects of your mission.
ix psl. - War, the author comes to the conclusion that "an episode that has been regarded both in the United States and abroad as discreditable to us, appears now to wear quite a different complexion. Such a result, it may be presumed, will gratify patriotic Americans, but the author must candidly admit that he began with no purpose or even thought of reaching it.