Blood on the Border: The United States Army and the Mexican IrregularsMacmillan, 1969 - 390 pages |
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Page 241
... cars , with three flatcars , was assembled . The cars were veterans of several years of warfare . Some of them had holes burned through the floors , where the Mexican soldaderas ( soldiers ' women ) had built fires and cooked for their ...
... cars , with three flatcars , was assembled . The cars were veterans of several years of warfare . Some of them had holes burned through the floors , where the Mexican soldaderas ( soldiers ' women ) had built fires and cooked for their ...
Page 252
... cars were trailed in the dust by " a battered second - hand car , " bearing two newspaper correspond- ents ; the convoy was overtaken shortly by a still more ancient vehicle , driven at mad speed by Floyd Gibbons , the correspond- ent ...
... cars were trailed in the dust by " a battered second - hand car , " bearing two newspaper correspond- ents ; the convoy was overtaken shortly by a still more ancient vehicle , driven at mad speed by Floyd Gibbons , the correspond- ent ...
Page 297
... car was fitted as a kitchen car , one car was living quarters for the medical personnel , one car was an operating and recov- ery room , four cars were for litter patients , one car was a combination of baggage car with additional ...
... car was fitted as a kitchen car , one car was living quarters for the medical personnel , one car was an operating and recov- ery room , four cars were for litter patients , one car was a combination of baggage car with additional ...
Contents
The Background and Beginningthe 1850s | 1 |
Mexico | 3 |
Robin Hood on the Rio Grande | 16 |
Copyright | |
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