. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. ng ofWatertown. Waltham was created into a separate and dis-tinct township, January 4th, 1737-8, and it tookits name no doubt from some one of six parishesin England, probably, as the author sug-gests from Waltham Abbey, a market town ofthe County of Essex, which was the birth placeof John Eliot, and other New England the volume is descriptive rather than his-torical, a short account is given of the contribu-tion of Waltham in men and money to the severalwars of the country. The buildings of interest andimportance ; chu
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. ng ofWatertown. Waltham was created into a separate and dis-tinct township, January 4th, 1737-8, and it tookits name no doubt from some one of six parishesin England, probably, as the author sug-gests from Waltham Abbey, a market town ofthe County of Essex, which was the birth placeof John Eliot, and other New England the volume is descriptive rather than his-torical, a short account is given of the contribu-tion of Waltham in men and money to the severalwars of the country. The buildings of interest andimportance ; churches, factories and residencesare fully described. Christopher Gore, Gov-ernor of Massachusetts, was a citizen of Waltham,and had his mansion there. Excellent photo-graphic portraits are given of this gentleman ofthe old school, and of Nathan Appleton, who,with Lowell and Jackson, were the founders ofthe great cotton factory which converted Wal-tham from an agricultural to a manufacturingtown. In 1824 the first power loom was put insuccessful operations. ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANA, PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, From the Original by Paul LOuvrier, in the Collection of the N, Y. Historical Society. MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY Vol. IV MAY 1880 No. 5 THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO THE battle of San Jacinto, though a remarkable instance of triumphby a small irregular force over superior numbers of regulartroops, is mamly interesting on account of its ultimate defeat of about thirteen hundred men by seven hundred and eighty-three, in a fight of eighteen minutes duration, in which the effective valorwas all on one side, and the slaughter, wrought mainly in pursuit, wasalmost wholly on the other, may be viewed as uninteresting by a meremilitary student, but not so by the student of history. The reader isdoubtless acquainted with Creasys able and well known work, called The Fifteen Decisive Battles of History. The actions included in itslist, though selected with great judgment, are not
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