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Title: History of the United States, or, Republic of America : with a chronological table and a series of progressive maps
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Willard, Emma, 1787-1870
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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ringing it on ; his overtures for peace not being made in goodfaitli; and that in so doing, he violated tlie constitution, by whichcongress is the war-making power.f Congress had, however,of congress given to the President, the difficult task of defending Texas,with-consume out advising him of Avhat Texas was, —having received it intoill debates the Union with a disputed boundary to be afterwards settled.quesUons.) ^^^^ ^^ Mexico at once scornfully refused to negotiate, claim-ing the whole,—the question then occurred, ought the Execu-tive to take the Mexican account of limits, or that of Texas, nowan American state. Besides, if Mexico was resolved not tonegotiate, but to take the chances of war, she could not ex-pect other, than that her opponent would make whatever fairadvantage she could, from the coming contest. Gen. Taylor moved from Corpus Chiisti on the 8th oiMarch ; and after toihng ten days through an arid waste,he reached the Arroya Colorado. Here he was met by (t Members
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ACTUAL WAR. 407 a party of mounted Mexican marauders called ranclicros. part iv.They warned him that lie had reached the limits of Texas, pkriod m.and that to advance further would be regarded by the chap. vu.Mexicans as invasion. On the 25th, the army reached Point ^-^n-^^-Isabel, a small Mexican seaport, sometimes called, from the 1846,Day on which it stands, Brazos St. lago. The Mexican au- (March 12.thorities in leaving this place had set it on fire ; but Taylor xa^s^writelt)with exertion saved most of the buildings. The place was Mr. siiJeUimportant to him, as, from the nature of the coast, this must be sus beiiv wasthe depot for his stores. Leaving them here, with 450 men f,,y,^J~j^SlJunder Major Munroe, he advanced, and took post at the mouth ecfbut vviir.>of the Rio Grande opposite to Mataraoras. Here batterieswere soon erected by the Mexicans, pointing at his camp. This March 28.he intrenched, and immediately commenced a fort, whose guns encampsthreatened the heart of the

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