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Title: The army and navy of America : containing a full view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents ... from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Neff, Jacob K
Subjects: Military art and science United States -- History, Military To 1900 United States -- History, Naval To 1900
Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Pearsol
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fsecond to few of his compeers in celerity of movement, fertility ofresource, promptness in action, and endurance. To cope withhim was a different affair from conquering Mejia, Arista, andAmpudia. The other and the most serious embarrassment of Gen. Taylor,was the withdrawal from his command of nearly all his well train-ed and veteran regulars, to serve under Gen. Scott, at Vera Cruz;and the risking of his further success mainly upon the untried ef-forts of Volunteers. But these events only added to the glory ofthe victory and the commanders renown. It is not intended, by these remarks, to cast reproach on theGovernment at home. On the contrary, the decision to discon-tinue the line of approach to the capitol of Mexico by the longand difficult route to Monterey and San Luis Potosi, and to strikeit by the shorter one of Vera Cruz, was both proper and merci-ful. For, the long existence of any war, no matter how just inits origin, being a great national calamity, it is the imperative du-
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jS^ 1846.) THE MEXICAN WAR. 635 ty of belligerents so to wage it, as to bring it to the speediest pos-sible conclusion, consistent for the accooiplishment of the objectfor which it was commenced. Hence, when it became apparentto our Government, that nothing short of the capture of their cap-itol city could convince the Mexicans of their inability to succeedin the purpose for which they had begun the war, it was mercifulas well as proper to bring them to that state of conviction, withas little loss of time and of life as practicable. Nor was it then supposable that Santa Anna, who was knownto be in the city of Mexico, adding to its defences, and organizinghis army, could or would, by the 1st of February, concentrate aforce of 21,000 men at San Luis Potosi; and in the short spaceof twenty days afterwards, march them across an almost desertcountry of more than three hundred miles, to attack Taylornear Saltillo ; when he knew that Gen. Scotts main expeditionagainst Mexico, by way of Vera

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