The War with Mexico ReviewedAmerican Peace Society, 1850 - 298 páginas Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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... Jalapa , had letters from the city of Mexico , which spoke " confidently of his reception , " § and gave information of it to the Department * 30th Congress , 1st Session , House of Representatives , Executive Documents , No. 60 : " The ...
... Jalapa , had letters from the city of Mexico , which spoke " confidently of his reception , " § and gave information of it to the Department * 30th Congress , 1st Session , House of Representatives , Executive Documents , No. 60 : " The ...
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... Jalapa , and 200 sick at Perote . Here we have on the sick report 1,017 . Not a corps has made a forced march , except in the pursuit after the battle of Cerro Gordo , and every possible attention has been given to the health of the ...
... Jalapa , and 200 sick at Perote . Here we have on the sick report 1,017 . Not a corps has made a forced march , except in the pursuit after the battle of Cerro Gordo , and every possible attention has been given to the health of the ...
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... Jalapa , Perote , and Puebla , early in June , at the very beginning of the sickly season , and 2,302 at Puebla alone , the last of July , and 1,900 in August , we can imagine what must have been the later scenes of the same summer , as ...
... Jalapa , Perote , and Puebla , early in June , at the very beginning of the sickly season , and 2,302 at Puebla alone , the last of July , and 1,900 in August , we can imagine what must have been the later scenes of the same summer , as ...
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... Jalapa , and the remainder in that of Perote . " Of 648 men , in the regiment commanded by Gen. Pierce , only 120 remained fit for service in the city of Mexico . Col. Baker , Member of Congress from Illinois , declared in the House of ...
... Jalapa , and the remainder in that of Perote . " Of 648 men , in the regiment commanded by Gen. Pierce , only 120 remained fit for service in the city of Mexico . Col. Baker , Member of Congress from Illinois , declared in the House of ...
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Abiel Abbot Livermore. orders said to have been committed by Major Lally's detachment about Jalapa . I trust that the rumors greatly exaggerate the facts ; or rather that they are entirely false . I will tolerate no disorders of any kind ...
Abiel Abbot Livermore. orders said to have been committed by Major Lally's detachment about Jalapa . I trust that the rumors greatly exaggerate the facts ; or rather that they are entirely false . I will tolerate no disorders of any kind ...
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Página 264 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Página 164 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
Página 290 - The cup of forbearance had been exhausted, even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil.
Página 273 - Governments, in the name of those nations, do promise to each other that they will endeavor, in the most sincere and earnest manner, to settle the differences so arising, and to preserve the state of peace and friendship in which the two countries are now placing themselves, using, for this end, mutual representations and pacific negotiations.
Página 207 - Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees...
Página 5 - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Página 71 - It is expected that, in selecting the establishment for your troops, you will approach as near the boundary line — the Rio Grande — as prudence will dictate. With this view the President desires that your position, for a part of your forces at least, should be west of the river Nueces.
Página 3 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Página 221 - Then if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Página 207 - The more I am acquainted with agricultural affairs, the better I am pleased with them; insomuch, that I can no where find so great satisfaction as in those innocent and useful pursuits. In indulging these feelings; I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind, is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it, by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.