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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... completing their errand they landed to secure a supply of gasoline . A Mexican Federal officer arrested the paymaster and part of the boat's crew in the streets soon after their landing and two of the men who had been left as ...
... completing their errand they landed to secure a supply of gasoline . A Mexican Federal officer arrested the paymaster and part of the boat's crew in the streets soon after their landing and two of the men who had been left as ...
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... completing the debate or passing any resolution . Huerta issued a proclamation declaring that all aliens in his capital would be safeguarded . American merchant vessels were ordered to leave the port of Vera Cruz , and there was a rush ...
... completing the debate or passing any resolution . Huerta issued a proclamation declaring that all aliens in his capital would be safeguarded . American merchant vessels were ordered to leave the port of Vera Cruz , and there was a rush ...
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... completed , the New York , 27,500 tons ; Oklahoma , 27,500 ; and Texas , 27,000 . Each of these is armed with ten 14 - inch and twenty - one 5 - inch guns . Armed Cruisers Brooklyn , 9,215 tons ; California , 13,680 ; Colorado , 13,680 ...
... completed , the New York , 27,500 tons ; Oklahoma , 27,500 ; and Texas , 27,000 . Each of these is armed with ten 14 - inch and twenty - one 5 - inch guns . Armed Cruisers Brooklyn , 9,215 tons ; California , 13,680 ; Colorado , 13,680 ...
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... completed . The first official act of General Huerta as de facto ruler was to send word to Ambassador Wilson , asking him to notify the other members of the diplomatic corps and to advise President Taft that the fighting was ended and ...
... completed . The first official act of General Huerta as de facto ruler was to send word to Ambassador Wilson , asking him to notify the other members of the diplomatic corps and to advise President Taft that the fighting was ended and ...
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... , the Marquis of Branci- forte . The construction was begun in 1797 and the build- ing was completed in 1813. Its total cost was over $ 1,600,000 . CHAPTER VII " THE SORROWFUL NIGHT " Among the dramatic 124 EARLY HISTORY OF MEXICO.
... , the Marquis of Branci- forte . The construction was begun in 1797 and the build- ing was completed in 1813. Its total cost was over $ 1,600,000 . CHAPTER VII " THE SORROWFUL NIGHT " Among the dramatic 124 EARLY HISTORY OF MEXICO.
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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...