Blood on the Border: The United States Army and the Mexican IrregularsMacmillan, 1969 - 390 pages |
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Page 91
... carried an arrowhead that was never extracted . Crook rose to high command during the Civil War but really reached his stride after the war as an Indian fighter . He came to the conclusion , partly as a result of his experiences as a ...
... carried an arrowhead that was never extracted . Crook rose to high command during the Civil War but really reached his stride after the war as an Indian fighter . He came to the conclusion , partly as a result of his experiences as a ...
Page 104
... carried downward with the horse . Fortunately , after man and horse had been carried for a few yards , their descent was checked by a clump of bushes , and they were able to scramble back to the trail , but it was a narrow escape for a ...
... carried downward with the horse . Fortunately , after man and horse had been carried for a few yards , their descent was checked by a clump of bushes , and they were able to scramble back to the trail , but it was a narrow escape for a ...
Page 221
... carried by a pack animal was a mere fraction of what was needed . Gen- eral Pershing had ordered the column to take five days ' rations , and all the ammunition and forage that could be carried , but evidence indicates that only three ...
... carried by a pack animal was a mere fraction of what was needed . Gen- eral Pershing had ordered the column to take five days ' rations , and all the ammunition and forage that could be carried , but evidence indicates that only three ...
Contents
The Background and Beginningthe 1850s | 1 |
Mexico | 3 |
Robin Hood on the Rio Grande | 16 |
Copyright | |
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10th Cavalry 1st Aero Squadron Adjutant Aero Squadron Agua Prieta American ammunition Apache scouts Arizona arrived artillery attack band bandits became brigade Brown Brownsville camp Captain captured Carranza Carranzista cars Casas Grandes Chihuahua Colonel Colonia Dublán Columbus column command Cortina Crook crossed Cruz Diary Díaz Dodd El Paso enemy fight force Ford Foreign Relations Fort Brown Funston garrison Geronimo Guerrero headquarters Heintzelman horses Huerta Ibid Indians Infantry Juarez Kickapoos killed large numbers later Lieutenant Lower Rio machine gun Mackenzie Madero Major Matamoras Mexican Mexico City miles military morning moved Namiquipa National Guard night officers orders packtrain Pancho Villa Paso Pershing Pershing's Porfirio Díaz President prisoners Punitive Expedition raiders raids ranch Rangers regiment reported river road San Antonio Santa Secretary sent shot soldiers Sonora tion Tompkins took town trail train troops truck Twiggs United States Army Vera Cruz Villistas wagon wounded