Our Mexican Conflicts Including a Brief History of Mexico From the Sixth Centur
Our Mexican Conflicts Including a Brief History of Mexico From the Sixth Centur
Thomas B Gregory
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That it was a wicked deed, a deed that clashed with the larger moralities, remains to be proven. UNPREPAREDNESS OF THE AMERICAN ARMY On the 24th day of April, 1846, the Mexi- can General Torre j on, with a considerable body of infantry and cavalry, crossed the Rio Grande and on the following day came upon a scouting party of twenty-six Ameri- can dragoons under Captain Thornton, who after a short skirmish were surrounded and captured. The American casualties were six- teen killed and wounded. T...he first blood of the Mexican War was shed, and it was up to the United States to do the rest. Our country was in a state of utter un- preparedness no more ready to begin a war than it was to begin a trip to the moon. The regular army was hopelessly inadequate in 66 ZACHAEY TAYLOR Our Meocican Conflicts numbers, the whole force on paper being but 8, 616, the total number " present for duty " being only 643 commissioned officers and 5, 612 non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers and privates an aggregate of a little over six thousand.
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