The Mexican war: a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the generalsTo which is added, the treaty of peace, and valuable tables of the strength and losses of the United States army . f ships. The castle of San Juanreturned, from its heavy batteries, the fire, the light, thesmoke, the noise of battle. Such was the subhme andawfully terrible scene, as beheld from the trenches of thearmy, from the 22d to the 25th of March, when the accu-mulated science of ages, applied to the military art,
The Mexican war: a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the generalsTo which is added, the treaty of peace, and valuable tables of the strength and losses of the United States army . f ships. The castle of San Juanreturned, from its heavy batteries, the fire, the light, thesmoke, the noise of battle. Such was the subhme andawfully terrible scene, as beheld from the trenches of thearmy, from the 22d to the 25th of March, when the accu-mulated science of ages, applied to the military art, had,on the plains of Vera Cruz, aggregated and displayed thefulness of its destructive power. On the evening of the 25th instant, the consuls of Eu-ropean powers residing in Vera Cruz, made application,by memorial, to General Scott for a truce, to enable themand the women and children of the city to retire. Tothis General Scott replied—that a truce could only begranted on application of General Morales, the governor,with a view to surrender;^ that safeguards had alreadybeen sent to the foreign consuls, of which they had refused to avail themselves ; that the blockade had been leftopen to consuls and neutrals to the 22d proximo; and » Scotts Official Report of March 25, 1847. ill. OVERiTURES FOR SURRENDER. 171 thai the case of women and children, with their hardshipsand distresses, had been fully considered before one gunwas fired. The memorial represented that the batteries had alreadya terrible effect on the city—and by this, and other evi-dence, it was now clear that a crisis had arrived. Thecity must either be surrendered, or it must be consignedto inevitable and most melancholy destruction. Accordingly, early on the morning of the 26th of March,General Landero, on whom the command had been de-volved by General Morales, made overtures of had been made by Scott for carrying thecity by assault on that very day. The proposition of theMexican general
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