The History of Mexico and Its Wars: Comprising an Account of the Aztec Empire, the Cortez Conquest, the Spaniards' Rule, the Mexican Revolution, the Texan War, the War with the United States, and the Maximilian Invasion : Together with an Account of Mexican Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Exports, Imports, Duties, Mines, Cities, Railroads, Treaties, Topography, Population, and the Social Condition of the PeopleA. Hawkins, 1882 - 706 sider History of the Republic of Mexico from before the Conquistadors to 1882. Focus of the book is concentrated on the 19th century detailing the wars of Mexico, including their war for Independence, and the wars with Texas and the United States. Attention is also given to social and economic aspects of the country again focusing on late 19th century statistics. |
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Side 21
... prisons , in which those only are operatives who are compelled to work in them as a punish- ment for crime and insolvency . This lamentable state of things results from the selfish policy of the Spaniards , who prohibited manu- factures ...
... prisons , in which those only are operatives who are compelled to work in them as a punish- ment for crime and insolvency . This lamentable state of things results from the selfish policy of the Spaniards , who prohibited manu- factures ...
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... prisoners of war , who were reserved for public sacrifice , criminals , public debtors , volun- tary slaves , and children sold by their parents , the two latter classes resulting from the poverty of indi- viduals . The slave was ...
... prisoners of war , who were reserved for public sacrifice , criminals , public debtors , volun- tary slaves , and children sold by their parents , the two latter classes resulting from the poverty of indi- viduals . The slave was ...
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... prisoners . These were never scalped . Their discipline drew forth encomiums from their Spanish adversaries , and the skill of the surgeons in their well esta- blished hospitals no doubt merited the praise bestowed on them by the old ...
... prisoners . These were never scalped . Their discipline drew forth encomiums from their Spanish adversaries , and the skill of the surgeons in their well esta- blished hospitals no doubt merited the praise bestowed on them by the old ...
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... prisoner was stretched . Five priests secured his head and his limbs ; while the sixth clad in a scarlet mantle , emblematic of his bloody office , dexterously opened the breast of the wretched victim with a sharp razor of itztli , —a ...
... prisoner was stretched . Five priests secured his head and his limbs ; while the sixth clad in a scarlet mantle , emblematic of his bloody office , dexterously opened the breast of the wretched victim with a sharp razor of itztli , —a ...
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... prisoner was expounded by the priests as the type of human destiny , which brilliant in its com- mencement , too often closes in sorrow and disaster . " * This was the ordinary mode of human sacrifice . Another , which has been termed ...
... prisoner was expounded by the priests as the type of human destiny , which brilliant in its com- mencement , too often closes in sorrow and disaster . " * This was the ordinary mode of human sacrifice . Another , which has been termed ...
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advance American army Anahuac arms arrived artillery attack Aztecs battery battle BATTLE OF CONTRERAS body brigade Buena camp cannon capital Captain captured cavalry Chapultepec charge Chihuahua Churubusco city of Mexico Colonel command commenced Commodore companies conquest Cortes Cruz defence despatched division dragoons eight enemy enemy's feet fire force Fort Brown gallant garrison governor guns hill horses hundred immediately Indians infantry inhabitants Kearny killed Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Matamoras ment Mexi Mexican miles military Monterey Montezuma mountains movement nations Nezahualcoyotl Nezahualpilli night o'clock occupied officers opened Ornamental Palace Palenque party passed plaza Point Isabel position prisoners Puebla pyramid Quitman reached rear received regiment republic retreat returned river road ruins Saltillo Santa Anna sent shot side soldiers soon Spain Spaniards Spanish stone storm Taylor Texans Texas thousand tion Tlascalans town troops Twiggs United Vera Cruz viceroy victory volunteers walls whole Worth wounded
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Side 698 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the Federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States...
Side 696 - ... to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico ; thence, westwardly, along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso) to its western termination ; thence northward along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila...
Side 697 - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories, may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens, or acquire those of citizens of the United States. But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those •who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have...
Side 697 - The river Gila, and the part of the Rio Bravo del Norte lying below the southern boundary of New Mexico, being, agreeably to the fifth article^ divided in the middle between the two republics, the navigation of the Gila and of the Bravo below said boundary shall be free and common to- the vessels and citizens of both countries; and neither shall, without the consent of the other, construct any work that may impede or interrupt, in whole or in part, the exercise of this right; not even for the purpose...
Side 701 - ... all women and children scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind...
Side 696 - Republic, as about to be established by the following article, shall be definitively restored to the said Republic, together with all the artillery, arms, apparatus of war, munitions, and other public property, which were in the said castles and forts when captured, and which -shall remain there at the time when this treaty shall be duly ratified by the Government of the Mexican Republic. To this end, immediately upon the signature of this treaty, orders shall be despatched to the American...
Side 697 - They shall keep journals and make out plans of their operations ; and the result agreed upon by them shall be deemed a part of this treaty, and shall have the same force as if it were inserted therein.
Side 700 - If unhappily any disagreement should hereafter arise between the governments of the two republics, whether with respect to the interpretation of any stipulation in this treaty, or with respect to any other particular concerning the political or commercial relations of the two nations, the said governments, in the name of those nations, do promise to each other that they will endeavor, in the most sincere and earnest manner, to settle the differences so arising, and to preserve the state of peace...
Side 698 - In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
Side 696 - Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico...