War with
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共 63 段- Jan. 3. Scott orders troops from Taylor.
- The privates and non-commissioned officers, on the other han
- After dinner we look about the town. All is monotonous and s
- Struggling with the crisis precipitated by events in the Pen
- Another individual also took offence. After setting the ball
- For a while Bustamante, whose government practically faded o
- Meanwhile a treaty of amity and commerce, proposed by Poinse
- In April, 1840, under a verbal order from the governor of up
- In 1843 our decisive difficulty with Mexico began to take sh
- To suppose that such men, discussing a matter of so much gra
- Behind all these facts lay the general anti-foreign prejudic
- Gifted at vaticination, the _Times_ predicted also that our
- Behind our voracity and largely responsible for it were a re
- All prospects of negotiation came to an end, however, and th
- Toward the end of August Marcy wrote: "Should Mexico assembl
- Finally, as a matter of fact, the hostilities were deliberat
- Arista, a bold and experienced officer, expecting Taylor to
- A bridge might have been in readiness; but, though several o
- Polk's diary and papers reveal no evidence that he seriously
- Scott, however, felt that waging war might involve military
- August 4 Taylor himself embarked, and the next day artillery
- In the present instance he had supposed in the Mexican style
- [Illustration: BATTLE OF MONTEREY GENERAL PLAN]
- Worth's courage and spirit were inflexible, but he was a lit
- So the fight ended. It had been one long scene of gallantry,
- Advancing, then, by the left bank of the swift Santa Catarin
- [Illustration: Tampico and Its Environs]
- So fine an opportunity for adventure appealed instantly to t
- No less extraordinary than such an undertaking were the comm
- But these Americans were no ordinary men; and while they had
- Nor were such opinions merely expressed--they were made know
- The Californians, however, did not relish Frémont's total di
- As the Americans crossed--the first of them deploying and wa
- Taylor having pronounced it Scott's duty after the battles o
- Minor affairs, too, created trouble for Scott, and one of th
- But this radiant picture was only paint-deep. _Don Simplicio
- At nightfall the roar of musketry on the sierra, answered by
- About 860 officers and 9000 men gathered round Santa Anna th
- 1.5. _Church_, _army_, _civil service_. Mayer, War, 20-1, 13
- When Santa Anna resumed the Presidency in May, 1833, he pain
- Gorostiza's view, and no doubt that of the Mexicans generall
- 3.28. The Mexican government demanded that Baldwin (note 26)
- 4.9. _Amigo del Pueblo_, July 17, 1845. Smith, Annex. of Tex
- 5.12. Memoria de ... Relaciones, Jan., 1849. =77=Cuevas, no.
- 6.29. =56=W. S. Parrott to Buchanan, June 29, 1845. The corr
- 7.22. Ho. 60; 30, 1, pp. 132-3, 145, 1202 (to Mejía, Mar. 28
- In October, 1847, the _Review_ stated the policy which it sa
- 8.17. When Taylor set out for Point Isabel, though he descri
- The authorized maximum of the army was 16,998 officers and m
- 10.10. =252=Lieut. Mackall wrote with reference to this matt
- 10.37. Other war measures were: (Aug. 28) free importation o
- Ampudia's reasons were: 1. It would take a month to demolish
- 12.11. Ho. 4; 29, 2, p. 78 (Taylor). =364=Worth to S., Oct.
- 13.8. The maguey (_agave Americana_) is the century plant, a
- 14.3. The text includes two companies of dragoons that joine
- 16.4. _California and its population._ =13=Pakenham, nos. 66
- 17.2. _Gillespie's mission._ _Cong. Globe_, 30, 1, p. 605.
- 17.25. The troops were all on foot except Gillespie's men. S
- 18.20. From Montemorelos Taylor sent a topographical enginee
- Taylor's ostensible reasons for so doing as given by himself
- 19.22. _Taylor's operations Feb. 20-21 (including night of F
- 20.24. _The night of Feb. 23._ Semmes, Service, 122. Ceballo
- Woods, William. =361=Recollections.