Young folks' history of the United States . GENERAL SCOTT. 276 Bombard-ment ofVera Cruz. YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. the capital of the country, and conquering a accordingly, with twelve thousand men, bombardedVera Cruz; and it was surrendered, with the fortress ofSan Juan dUUoa, the strongest fortress on the conti-nent, except that of Quebec. A fleet under CommodoreMatthew C. Perry also assisted in this attack. Thenthe American army advanced toward the capital, over-. BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA. — REPULSE OF MEXICAN LANCERS. coming all difficulties, and winning a series of daringvictories
Young folks' history of the United States . GENERAL SCOTT. 276 Bombard-ment ofVera Cruz. YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. the capital of the country, and conquering a accordingly, with twelve thousand men, bombardedVera Cruz; and it was surrendered, with the fortress ofSan Juan dUUoa, the strongest fortress on the conti-nent, except that of Quebec. A fleet under CommodoreMatthew C. Perry also assisted in this attack. Thenthe American army advanced toward the capital, over-. BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA. — REPULSE OF MEXICAN LANCERS. coming all difficulties, and winning a series of daringvictories on the way, always against great superiority ofnumbers. Among these battles were those of CerroGordo, Churubusco, El Molino del Rey, and Chapul-tepec; and the Americans finally took possession ofOccupation the city of Mexico, Sept. 14, 1847. I^ was a city ofof Mexico, a hundred and forty thousand inhabitants; and the END OF THE WAR. 2/7 army that entered it consisted of less than six thousandmen. Meanwhile the Mexican provinces were beinoj at- attack on . , Mexican tacked in several different directions. Gen. Stephen provincesKearney marched into New Mexico, and Colonel Doni-phan, into Chihuahua; and their small forces took pos-session of those provinces. Capt. J. C. Fremont, who wasexploring California with only sixty men, became awareof apian of making California into an independent State,such as Texas had been; and he found certain Ameri-can settlers in the Sacr
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