Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE WAR WITH MEXICO

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| BY THE SAME AUTHOR |
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| The |
| Annexation of Texas |
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| _Octavo ix + 496 pages_ |
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| _By mail, postpaid, $3.00_ |
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| This is the only work attempting to |
| deal thoroughly with an affair that |
| was intrinsically far more important |
| than had previously been supposed, |
| and was also of no little significance |
| on account of its relation to the war |
| with Mexico. |
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| THE MACMILLAN COMPANY |
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THE

WAR WITH MEXICO

BY

JUSTIN H. SMITH

FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY
AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
AUTHOR OF "THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS," "OUR
STRUGGLE FOR THE FOURTEENTH COLONY,"
"ARNOLD'S MARCH FROM
CAMBRIDGE TO QUEBEC,"
ETC.

VOLUME I

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1919,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and printed. Published December, 1919.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO

HENRY CABOT LODGE, LL.D.

SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES
HISTORIAN
PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WHO GAVE THE AUTHOR INVALUABLE ASSISTANCE
IN THE COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATING
TO THE WAR WITH MEXICO
THIS WORK
IS VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED