CHAPTER VIII
.--General Taylor ordered to the Rio Grande--History
of Texan boundaries--Origin of the war--Military preparations-- Commencement of hostilities--Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca-- Matamoros--Taylor's advance--Fall of Monterey, 334
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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.
.--General Taylor ordered to the Rio Grande--History
of Texan boundaries--Origin of the war--Military preparations-- Commencement of hostilities--Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca-- Matamoros--Taylor's advance--Fall of Monterey, 334
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