. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. POLKS ADMINISTRATION. 325 He found the route strongly fortified and guarded bythirty thousand men, yet he pushed on almost battles of Contreras and Churubusco were fought andwon, and the city was approached. The War Ends.—After a period spent in fruitless negoti-ations, the army moved again on September 8. One byone the defences surrounding the city were taken. OnSeptember 13 the most formidable of them all, the stronghill fortress of Chapultepec, was taken by storm. With this. Chapultepec To-day. reve
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. POLKS ADMINISTRATION. 325 He found the route strongly fortified and guarded bythirty thousand men, yet he pushed on almost battles of Contreras and Churubusco were fought andwon, and the city was approached. The War Ends.—After a period spent in fruitless negoti-ations, the army moved again on September 8. One byone the defences surrounding the city were taken. OnSeptember 13 the most formidable of them all, the stronghill fortress of Chapultepec, was taken by storm. With this. Chapultepec To-day. reverse the defence ended, the army marching next day intothe city, and hoisting the stars and stripes over the ancientpalace known as the Halls of the Montezumas. Thewar was at an end. Throughout its whole course theAmericans had not been once defeated. In Scotts armywere several men destined to play a great part in the CivilWar, among them Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Result of the War.—A treaty of peace was signed Feb-ruary 2, 1848, at the village of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It was 326 THE SLAVERY CONTEST. highly advantageous to the United States. Mexico gave upher claims upon Texas, and sold to the United States thetwo provinces of New Mexico and California, then occupiedby American troops, for the sum of fifteen milHon dollars;this country assuming, in addition, debts due from Mexicoto United States citizens amounting to about three milliondollars. In 1853, to settle a dispute about the boundary,this country paid Mexico ten million dollars for a tract south
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