Excerpt from The Home Squadron Under Commodore Conner: In the War With Mexico, Being a Synopsis of Its Services Containing Admiral Addendum Memoir, of the Landing of Our Army at Vera Cruz in Vera Cruz in 1847 Leaving out the blockade, which was maintained solely by the navy from the commencement of the war, the siege of Vera Cruz may be divided into three parts, - the descent, the bombardment, and the surrender. The entire movement was a combined military and naval operation, in which circumstances so favored the army as ...
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Excerpt from The Home Squadron Under Commodore Conner: In the War With Mexico, Being a Synopsis of Its Services Containing Admiral Addendum Memoir, of the Landing of Our Army at Vera Cruz in Vera Cruz in 1847 Leaving out the blockade, which was maintained solely by the navy from the commencement of the war, the siege of Vera Cruz may be divided into three parts, - the descent, the bombardment, and the surrender. The entire movement was a combined military and naval operation, in which circumstances so favored the army as to yield to it the most active, brilliant, and best-appreciated share of the work. Nevertheless, the navy did perform most arduous and important ser vices. Among these was the descent, by which the army was placed under the walls of the enemy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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