The Twelve Months Volunteer: Or, Journal of a Private, in the Tennessee Regiment of Cavalry, in the Campaign, in Mexico, 1846-7; Comprising Four General Subjects: I. A Soldier's Life in Camp; Amusements; Duties; Hardships; II. A Description of Texas and Mexico, as Seen on the March; III. Manners; Customs; Religious Ceremonies of the Mexicans; IV. The Operations of All the Twelve Months Volunteers: Including a Complete History of the War with Mexico...engravings, from Drawings by the AuthorJ. A. & U. P. James, 1849 - 640페이지 |
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... followed , in five days after , by a formal protest against the action of Congress in the matter , by the Mexican minister plenipotentiary , Don Juan N'Almonte , at Washington ; and to this protest he added the demand of his credentials ...
... followed , in five days after , by a formal protest against the action of Congress in the matter , by the Mexican minister plenipotentiary , Don Juan N'Almonte , at Washington ; and to this protest he added the demand of his credentials ...
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... followed depredation . Remonstrance by the United States , followed remonstrance ; but still the spolia- tions continued . In the language of the message of the President of the United States of December 8th , 1846 : " Our citizens ...
... followed depredation . Remonstrance by the United States , followed remonstrance ; but still the spolia- tions continued . In the language of the message of the President of the United States of December 8th , 1846 : " Our citizens ...
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... followed with a larger army , to take possession of the country . But the Mexican army was not destined to make so long a march , for on the 9th , 10th and 11th of March , 1846 , General Taylor broke up his camp at Corpus Christi , and ...
... followed with a larger army , to take possession of the country . But the Mexican army was not destined to make so long a march , for on the 9th , 10th and 11th of March , 1846 , General Taylor broke up his camp at Corpus Christi , and ...
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... follows , commencing on the right wing : " Fifth infantry , Colonel McIntosh ; Ringgold's artil- lery ; third infantry , Captain Morris ; two eighteen pounders , Lieutenant Churchill ; fourth infantry , Major Allen ; two squadrons of ...
... follows , commencing on the right wing : " Fifth infantry , Colonel McIntosh ; Ringgold's artil- lery ; third infantry , Captain Morris ; two eighteen pounders , Lieutenant Churchill ; fourth infantry , Major Allen ; two squadrons of ...
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... followed volley in rapid succession ; the air was filled with musket balls , round shot , grape , and canister . May's squadron being ordered to make a demonstration upon the enemy's flank , was driven back with loss upon the main body ...
... followed volley in rapid succession ; the air was filled with musket balls , round shot , grape , and canister . May's squadron being ordered to make a demonstration upon the enemy's flank , was driven back with loss upon the main body ...
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advance alcalde American appearance arms army arrived artillery attack bank battalion battery battle body bugles called camp cannon Capt Captain cavalry chapparal Colonel column Comanches command continued crossed crowded Cruz distance encamped endeavored enemy feet fire force Fort Brown four Goliad grass ground Guadaloupe guard guns hacienda halted heavy hill horses hour hundred infantry Kentucky killed lake lancers land Lavacca Lieut Lieutenant Little Rock look Matamoras ment Mexican Mexico miles Monterey morning mules musquit night o'clock officers passed Pedro Ampudia pieces Plaza prairie Private rancho rear regiment Rio Grande river road rode saddle Saltillo scene seen sent sergeant shells sick side slightly soldiers soon Tampico Taylor Tennessee tents Texas thousand timber tion took town trees Trinity river troops United valley Vera Cruz wagon train whole wounded
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34 페이지 - Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
637 페이지 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force...
637 페이지 - ... is necessary to be taken from them for the use of such armed force, the same shall be paid for at a reasonable price.
638 페이지 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
638 페이지 - ... to be agreed upon between the respective commanders, be paid by the other party, on a mutual adjustment of accounts for the subsistence of prisoners, and such accounts shall not be mingled with or set off...
635 페이지 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the Federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States...
636 페이지 - And finally, the sacredness of this obligation shall never be lost sight of by the said government when providing for the removal...
636 페이지 - ... influence and power, to rescue them and return them to their country, or deliver them to the agent or representative of the Mexican government. The Mexican authorities will, as far as practicable, give to the government of the United States notice of such captures ; and...