Mexico in Peace and War: A Narrative of Mexican History and Conditions from the Earliest Times to the Present Hour, Including an Account of the Military Operations by the United States at Vera Cruz in 1914 and the Causes that Led TheretoReilly & Britton syndicate, 1914 - 320 páginas |
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... the same stamp and animated by the same spirit as their brothers who followed the flag to Cuba in 1898 , and of whom it was well said by a British officer that " every man seemed fit to command a company 11 INTRODUCTORY.
... the same stamp and animated by the same spirit as their brothers who followed the flag to Cuba in 1898 , and of whom it was well said by a British officer that " every man seemed fit to command a company 11 INTRODUCTORY.
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... command a company . " But , " Theirs not to reason why - Theirs but to do or die . " With grim , set face the admiral paced the bridge of his flagship . His orders were plain and his purpose adamant . It was his duty to secure ...
... command a company . " But , " Theirs not to reason why - Theirs but to do or die . " With grim , set face the admiral paced the bridge of his flagship . His orders were plain and his purpose adamant . It was his duty to secure ...
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... command of Major Smedley Darlington Butler , son of Representative Thomas S. Butler of Penn- sylvania , senior Republican member of the United States House of Representatives . Leaving a guard at the entrances to the Custom - house ...
... command of Major Smedley Darlington Butler , son of Representative Thomas S. Butler of Penn- sylvania , senior Republican member of the United States House of Representatives . Leaving a guard at the entrances to the Custom - house ...
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... command of the landing force soon located a large force of Mexicans firing on the United States troops from the tower of the Benito Juarez light- house and ordered his men to open fire on this point . Several three - inch guns were ...
... command of the landing force soon located a large force of Mexicans firing on the United States troops from the tower of the Benito Juarez light- house and ordered his men to open fire on this point . Several three - inch guns were ...
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... command , to ask if he was not ready to surrender . Unless the Mexicans yielded Capt . Rush had his choice of continuing the fighting under the tactics he was using or of charging all positions or calling on the warships for a ...
... command , to ask if he was not ready to surrender . Unless the Mexicans yielded Capt . Rush had his choice of continuing the fighting under the tactics he was using or of charging all positions or calling on the warships for a ...
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Admiral Fletcher altar American April April 22 arms army arrest artillery attack Aztecs battle battleships Blanquet bluejackets boats bull called capital Carranza Cathedral Chapultepec church City of Mexico command Congress constitution Cortez Cruz death declared district election eral federal Felix Diaz fighting fire flag forces foreign Guadalupe Guanajuato guns hacienda henequen Hidalgo horse Huerta independence Indian Iturbide Juan Juarez killed labor Lake Chalco land Maas Madero March marines matador ment Mexican Mexican Congress Mexico City miles military Montezuma National Palace navy night Oaxaca officers Paseo peace peons placed Plaza Mayor Porfirio Diaz port Prairie president of Mexico President Wilson prisoners Puebla pulque ranch rebels Republic revolution Santa Anna Scott Senate ships shot silver slaves Spain Spaniards Spanish stone streets Tampico Tampico incident Texas tilma tion towers troops United valley Vera Cruz viceroy Victoriano Huerta Washington wounded Yucatan
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Página 67 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Página 23 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 49 - There can in what we do be no thought of aggression or of selfish aggrandizement. We seek to maintain the dignity and authority of the United States only because we wish always to keep our great influence unimpaired for the uses of liberty, both in the United States and wherever else it may be employed for the benefit of mankind.
Página 47 - A series of incidents have recently occurred which cannot but create the impression that the representatives of General Huerta were willing to go out of their way to show disregard for the dignity and rights of this government...
Página 49 - I, therefore, come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States, even amidst the distressing conditions now unhappily obtaining in Mexico.
Página 66 - We can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambition.
Página 94 - The steady pressure of moral force will before many days break the barriers of pride and prejudice down, and we shall triumph as Mexico's friends sooner than we could triumph as her enemies...
Página 94 - We should earnestly urge all Americans to leave Mexico at once, and should assist them to get away in every way possible — not because we would mean to slacken in the least our efforts to safeguard their lives and their interests, but because it is imperative that they should take no unnecessary risks when it is physically possible for them to leave the country.
Página 45 - April a paymaster of the USS Dolphin landed at the Iturbide Bridge landing at Tampico with a whaleboat and boat's crew to take off certain supplies needed by his...
Página 257 - As yet there is no great and powerful middle class, though such an element is being gradually evolved through the social and material progress of the country. There is not, as in most of the countries of Europe and in the United States, a great body politic, consisting of farmers, traders, and artisans, many of...