The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . THE MEXICAN WAR. 287 than ten thousand Mexicans. Taylors force was place was captured on the 24th of September, 1846,after several days of hard fighting. General Taylor now advanced farther into Mexico,but the United States government changed its plans,and orders were sent to Taylor to detach all but fivethousand of his troops to the assistance of General Scott,who was to command in a new campaign, which was tobe made into Mexico by way of Vera Cruz. Thusweakened, Gen- 1^ v BuenaVi V eral
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . THE MEXICAN WAR. 287 than ten thousand Mexicans. Taylors force was place was captured on the 24th of September, 1846,after several days of hard fighting. General Taylor now advanced farther into Mexico,but the United States government changed its plans,and orders were sent to Taylor to detach all but fivethousand of his troops to the assistance of General Scott,who was to command in a new campaign, which was tobe made into Mexico by way of Vera Cruz. Thusweakened, Gen- 1^ v BuenaVi V eral Taylor tookup a strong po-sition at BuenaVista, where hewas assailed bytwenty thou-sand Mexicansunder Santa Anna. After two davs of the most coura-geous fighting, and after running the greatest risk of anoverwhelming defeat, the little American army achievedthe most brilliant victory of the war—a victory whichmade Taylor the idol of the country, and afterwardbrought about his election to the presidency. By this time the war had shown the immense supe-riority of the American troops, the most of whom werevolunteers. The Mexicans often fought bravely, but thefrequent revolutions and petty civil wars in Mexico haddemoralized officers and soldiers. The arms of the Mexi-cans were also out of date. The Americans of that timewere brave and enterprising, and a little too fond of mili-tar) glory. They fought with great boldness and steadi-ness, and their early victories made them expect success. of thetroops. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER XLVIII. THE CLOSE OF THE MEXI
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