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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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But as much the same effect has been produced by theAmerican army in other parts of Mexico, we hope that no such move-ment will be made ; but that all Mexico, united by language and reli-gion, will have learned how much better is security than anarchy ;—andalso, we hope, that republican America vi^ill learn, on her part, fromMexico, how wretched a condition is that of anarchy ;—so that she mayavoid it by repressing, while yet in her power, all lawless outrages. t The Americans manifested afterwards their gratitude to these kindMexicans. They applying to Gen. Wool for aid on an incursion of savages,he sent to Donaphan, then in the region and under his command, a requestwhich the troops of that gallant chieftain fulfilled by doing battle with theComanches at El Poso, where Capt. Reid and Lieut. Gordon, with about30 men, killed and wounded 40 Indians,—liberated 19 boys and girls,and restored thein to their parents at Parras. FfiroF^THT^BTrrL E OF Mq-iiinff23^Fd.l84F. A^BnenaVista
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«-%^ I ^^^^ ^n Avtillerv, moving to the attack. United stales ^^ Infantry, By Lieut. Col. Mansfield, Corp. Engineers. PERILOUS POSITION. 411 Scott theref()re ordered fiora Gen. Taylor most of his efficient P^^t ^troops, leaving him, —till more could be sent by government, pkriod hi to stand on the defensive. Taylor, whatever might have chap. vm.been his feelings, promptly obeyed the order ; and dispatched ^—•■^v^v^to Vera Cruz the greater part of his regular troops, and vol- l§46.unteers, — with generals Worth, Patterson, Quitman, Twiggs, (Gen.scottiand others, who had fought so bravely by his side. This or- cen.Taykw,der reached the forces of Gen. Wool also; and to his great datex^Nov.grief deprived him of most of his efficient staff-officers and (Dec.regular infantry, those whom he had as soldiers brought up, beahng^Se^and with whom he had thought to win glory, the soldiers spaiches tomeed. But this deprivation proved to the two generals the iTma^sa!sou

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