United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . is theory the joint legis-lature of Texas and Coahuila made haste to put into statutory formby a resolution of December 19th, 1836. Mexico, however, insistedthat Texas only, and not Coahuila, had revolted against her authority,and that, therefore, the latter province, was still rightfully a part ofthe Mexican dominions, Thus it came to pass that Texas—now aState in the American Union — claimed the Rio Grande as her west-ern limit, while Mexico wa
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . is theory the joint legis-lature of Texas and Coahuila made haste to put into statutory formby a resolution of December 19th, 1836. Mexico, however, insistedthat Texas only, and not Coahuila, had revolted against her authority,and that, therefore, the latter province, was still rightfully a part ofthe Mexican dominions, Thus it came to pass that Texas—now aState in the American Union — claimed the Rio Grande as her west-ern limit, while Mexico was de-termined to have the Nueces asthe separating line. The ter-ritory between the two riverswas in dispute. The govern-ment of the United States madea proposal to settle the contro-versy by negotiation, but theauthorities of Mexico scornfullyrefused. This refusal was con-strued by the Americans as avirtual acknowledgment thatthe Mexicans were in thewrong, and that the Rio Grandemight justly be claimed as theboundary. Instructions wereaccordingly sent to GeneralTaylor to advance his army asnear to that river as circum-stances would warrant. LF OF MEXICO TEXAS AND COAHUILA, 1845. Under these orders he moved forward to Cor-pus Christi, at the mouth of the Nueces, established a camp, and bythe beginning of November, 1845, had concentrated a force of betweenfour and five thousand men. In the following January General Taylor was ordered to advanceto the Rio Grande. It was known that the Mexican government hadresolved not to receive the American ambassador sent thither to ne- POLES ADMINISTRATION. 449
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