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This is the first of two volumes of The War with Mexico. Theindex, which is contained in Volume II, refers to both volumes. Referencesto Volume II have been included as hyperlinks.
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
The
Annexation of Texas
Octavo ix + 496 pages
By mail, postpaid, $3.00
This is the only work attempting todeal thoroughly with an affair thatwas intrinsically far more importantthan had previously been supposed,and was also of no little significanceon account of its relation to the warwith Mexico.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
THE
WAR WITH MEXICO
BY
JUSTIN H. SMITH
FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY
AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
AUTHOR OF “THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS,” “OUR
STRUGGLE FOR THE FOURTEENTH COLONY,”
“ARNOLD’S MARCH FROM
CAMBRIDGE TO QUEBEC,”
ETC.
VOLUME I
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1919,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and printed. Published December, 1919.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.–Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO
HENRY CABOT LODGE, LL.D.
SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES
HISTORIAN
PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WHO GAVE THE AUTHOR INVALUABLE ASSISTANCE
IN THE COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATING
TO THE WAR WITH MEXICO
THIS WORK
IS VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
As every one understands, our conflict with Mexico has been almostentirely eclipsed by the greater wars following i