Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer. War With Mexico, in the Years 1846-8
The book Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer. War With Mexico, in the Years 1846-8 was written by author Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891 Here you can read free online of Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer. War With Mexico, in the Years 1846-8 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer. War With Mexico, in the Years 1846-8 a good or bad book?
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sent for a reiuforce- 3S 354 MEMOIRS OF A ment, which had been promised him; no attention was paid to his request. He ordered two brigade com- manders to bring their troops to his support; they properly refused to move from the positions to which they had been assigned, without orders from their commander-in-chief. He had six thousand men within his lines, and these ought to have been sufficient for the defense of the castle and its out- worl^s, but they were not. For onward and upward came the... gallant heroes of the Republic of the North, sweeping from their front all who dared to oppose, — leaving behind in their bloody tracks the dead and the dying, then planting their ladders they scaled the walls of the castle. Chapultepec was in their posses- sion, and the flag of our Republic was floating from its summit. One cheer of victory rolled its volume of sound into the terror stricken city, and then " Forward !" was again the word of command. Worth's command took the road to the San Cosme garita on the north; Quitman followed the fugitives from Chapultepec by the aqueduct, which entered the city by the Belen garita at the south-west angle of the city.
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