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Senate document volume 63rd Congress, no. 608
Physical Desc
ii, 202 pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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xiii, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California. At the time, the nation was hell-bent on expansion: James K. Polk had lately won the presidency by threatening England over the borders in Oregon, while Congress had just voted, in defiance of the Mexican government, to annex Texas. After Mexico declared war on the United States, Kearny's Army of the West was sent out,...
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