Blood on the Border: The United States Army and the Mexican IrregularsMacmillan, 1969 - 390 pages |
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... guns ( the ones he had captured ) firing rapidly but , fortunately for the Rangers , without any skill . A sudden mounted charge by a dozen or more Cortinistas failed to move Ford's men , and most of the horses vanished , riderless , in ...
... guns ( the ones he had captured ) firing rapidly but , fortunately for the Rangers , without any skill . A sudden mounted charge by a dozen or more Cortinistas failed to move Ford's men , and most of the horses vanished , riderless , in ...
Page 165
... guns and nineteen machine guns . Funston relayed this in- formation to Washington , saying that he could hold the city against any force the Mexicans could send against him but that the isolated pumping plant at El Tejar , nine miles ...
... guns and nineteen machine guns . Funston relayed this in- formation to Washington , saying that he could hold the city against any force the Mexicans could send against him but that the isolated pumping plant at El Tejar , nine miles ...
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... guns set up , open- ing fire at the fugitives at long range . Many of them could be seen running northward out of the town and then turning east , although the Americans were east of them . Lieutenant Colonel Selah R. H. Tompkins ( an ...
... guns set up , open- ing fire at the fugitives at long range . Many of them could be seen running northward out of the town and then turning east , although the Americans were east of them . Lieutenant Colonel Selah R. H. Tompkins ( an ...
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