. Stories of the War of 1812, and the Mexican War .. . and every attackof the enemy was repulsed. CaptainBragg gave them plenty of times during the day, was theAmerican army saved by the skill andeffect with which the artillery was ma-naged. At length night came, and theexhausted troops sank down on the next morning, the Mexican armyhad retreated and could not be Taylor had therefore gained avictory over an army more than fourtimes as large as his own. DONIPHANS MARCH, The Americans, under the commanrlof General Kearney, having taken pos-session of New
. Stories of the War of 1812, and the Mexican War .. . and every attackof the enemy was repulsed. CaptainBragg gave them plenty of times during the day, was theAmerican army saved by the skill andeffect with which the artillery was ma-naged. At length night came, and theexhausted troops sank down on the next morning, the Mexican armyhad retreated and could not be Taylor had therefore gained avictory over an army more than fourtimes as large as his own. DONIPHANS MARCH, The Americans, under the commanrlof General Kearney, having taken pos-session of New Mexico, Colonel Doniphanwith a regiment of mounted riflemen,was ordered to march to Chihuahua, andjoin General Wool. The country be-tween Santa Fe and Chihuahua was verylittle known, and therefore when ColonelDonii)han set out he did not expect toencounter the toils and dangers he after-wards met. A vast and dreary desertwas to be traversed, and a hostile peopleto be dealt with. Colonel Doniphan be-gan his march on the 17th of December,(100) M &U. P I It?i DONIPHAN S MARCH. 103 1846, and soon after reached the tractof country called by the Mexicans thedesert of death/^ where the bones ofmurdered men and famished animalswere strewn along the road, and wherenot a drop of water nor a blade of grassmet the eyes of the traveller. Afterpassing through this desert, the troopsreached Bracito, where they repulsed anattack made by the Mexicans. Doni-phan was reinforced soon after, andmarched for Chihuahua. Near thatplace he again defeated the enemy. Heremained six weeks at Chihuahua, andseeing nothing of General Wool, marchedto meet General Taylor. CAPTURE OF TAOS. After Colonel Doniphan left SantaFe, the Mexicans rose and killed Gover-nor Aent and five other murders followed. The Mexicanscollected a large army, and strongly for-tified a village called Pueblo de Price, with four hundred andfifty men, after defeating a portion of theenemy, marched to attack Pu
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