History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . re victorious, as usual,but their loss was fearful, 1,000 beingkilled or wounded, including 76 truce to last a fortnight was now agreedupon, but Scott, seeing that the Mexicanswere taking advantage of it to strengthentheir fortifications, did not wait so now had about 8,500 men fit for duty,and sixty-eight guns. Hostilities were re-newed September 7th, by the storm andcapture, costing nearly 800 men, of Molinodel Rey, or Kings Mill, amile and a halffrom the city. Possession of the Molino
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . re victorious, as usual,but their loss was fearful, 1,000 beingkilled or wounded, including 76 truce to last a fortnight was now agreedupon, but Scott, seeing that the Mexicanswere taking advantage of it to strengthentheir fortifications, did not wait so now had about 8,500 men fit for duty,and sixty-eight guns. Hostilities were re-newed September 7th, by the storm andcapture, costing nearly 800 men, of Molinodel Rey, or Kings Mill, amile and a halffrom the city. Possession of the Molino opened the wayto Chapultepec, the Gibraltar of Mexico,1,100 yards nearer the goal. As it wasbuilt upon a rock 150 feet high, impreg-nable on the north and well-nigh so on theeastern and most of the southern face,only the western and part of the southernsides could be scaled. But the strongholdwas the key to the city, and after surveyingthe situation, a council of war decided that 1847] THE MEXICAN l^AR 193 it must be taken. Two picked Americandetachments, one from the west, one from. the south, pushed up the rugged steeps inface of a withering fire. The rock-walls tothe base of the castle had to be mounted -13 194 SLAVERY CONTROVERSY [1848 by ladders. This was successfully accom-plished ; the enemy were driven from thebuilding back into the city, and the castleand grounds occupied by our troops. Alarge number of fugitives were cut off bya force sent around to the north. To pierce the city was even now by nomeans easy. The approach was by tworoads, one. entering the Belen gate, theother the San Cosme. General Quitmanadvanced toward the Beleh, but at theentrance was stopped by a destructivecannonade from the citadel itself. Thosefighting their way toward the San Cosmesucceeded in entering the city, LieutenantU. S. Grant making his mark in the gal-lant work of this day. The city wasevacuated that night, and on the 15th ofSeptember, 1847, was fully in the handsof Scott, The treaty
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