Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . of between four and five thousandwen, met and completely vanquishedSanta Anna, the greatest of Mexican sol- diers, with his army of twentj was a contest whiili, with his other vi
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . of between four and five thousandwen, met and completely vanquishedSanta Anna, the greatest of Mexican sol- diers, with his army of twentj was a contest whiili, with his other vic-torious battles at Ialo Alto, Kesa<a de laPalma, and Monterey, covered the hithertoalmost unknown name of Taylor with ahalo of gliiry from one end of tiie land tothe other; gave immense prestige toAmerican arms; and created, perhaps toolargely, the feeling that the conqueringparty might now go on and overrun thecountry, and dictate its own terms of there were strong positions yet to bemastered, and gory fields yet to be won,before that most of all coveted achieve-ment—the capture and occupation of theMexican capital—was to crown the suc-. cesses of the invaders and prove that theenemys country was at their mercy. As events proved, the last named greatact in this military drama was reservedfor General Scott, who had been appointedby the government at Washington, su-preme commander of the army in had led the way, by his splendidmovements and victories, for the accom-plishment of all that yet remained to bedone. Vera Cruz, the key to the Mexicancapital, with the almost impregnable fort-ress of San Juan de Ulloa, soon fell intothe hands of the Americans, after a terri-bly destructive cannonade. A similar fatebefell nearly all the principal was Santa Anna defeated onthe embattled heights of CerroGordo, in whicli tremendous strong-lioKl he had attempted with fifteenthousand men, but in vain, to op-pose Scott, who had only six thou-sand. To
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