. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . erican Le-gation in Mexico, assures the Secretary of Statethat war is inevitable, though he adopts the fic-tion of Mr. Calhoun, that it is the result of theabolitionist intrigues of Great Britain, whichhe credited with the intention of depriving* August 23, 1843. GENERAL D. JUAN N. ALMONTE. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPHIN POSSESSION OF JOHN W. FOSTER, ESQ.) both Texas and the United States of all claimto the country between the Nueces and theRio Grande. No one, therefore, doubted that war wouldfollow, and it soon came. General ZacharyTaylor had been se
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . erican Le-gation in Mexico, assures the Secretary of Statethat war is inevitable, though he adopts the fic-tion of Mr. Calhoun, that it is the result of theabolitionist intrigues of Great Britain, whichhe credited with the intention of depriving* August 23, 1843. GENERAL D. JUAN N. ALMONTE. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPHIN POSSESSION OF JOHN W. FOSTER, ESQ.) both Texas and the United States of all claimto the country between the Nueces and theRio Grande. No one, therefore, doubted that war wouldfollow, and it soon came. General ZacharyTaylor had been sent during the summer toCorpus Christi, where a considerable portionof the small army of the nation was placedunder his command. It was generally under-stood to be the desire of the Administrationthat hostilities should begin without orders,by a species of spontaneous combustion; butthe coolness and prudence of General Taylormade futile any such hopes, if they wereentertained, and it required a positive orderto induce him, in March, 1846, to advance. GENERAL PEDRO DE AMPUDIA. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPHIN POSSESSION OF JOHN \V. FOSTER, ESQ.) 5-° ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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