General Taylor's Life, Battles, and Despatches, With the Only Correct Portrait Yet Published

Download or read book General Taylor's Life, Battles, and Despatches, With the Only Correct Portrait Yet Published written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from General Taylor's Life, Battles, and Despatches, With the Only Correct Portrait Yet Published: Including Highly Important Letters, From the President of the United States, the War Department, Secretary Marcy, General Taylor, General Scott, Commodore Perry, and the Mexican Authorities Under such appalling odds, with such disad vantages, in the heart of an enemy's country, surrounded by foes on all sides, and with an overwhelming array actuated by every motive that could nerve men to action, thirsting for revenge against the invaders of their country, impelled with the ferocity of famished wolves, and led on by their greatest champion, what could have been anticipated but an easy and certain triumph. But in circumstances so appalling and of such peril, there was no talk of retreat or of dismay among our small but heroic band. With Gen. Taylor, backed by American troops, there was no such word as fail. He knew the mettle of his men; and they confided in the sagacity, coolness, the military genius and unflinching firmness of their brave old General. An officer of his staff, writing before the battle. Says, In the course of conversation with Gen. Taylor, i asked him if he could realize that Gen. Santa Anna was really approaching with such an army. The old war horse shrugged his shoulders and replied, Let them come; they will go back a good deal faster. He has no fears. The result, glorious in the extreme, has proved the accuracy of his calculations. Words are in adequate to express the high admiration and the deep felt gratitude which has inspired the coun try, at the glorious achievements at Buena Vista. It has been truly said that, in no page of our history do we find recorded four such hard fought battles, fought at such fearful odds as these. Which have placed such laurels on the brow of Gen. Taylor, and the brave troops under his com mand. The country is astonished to find it pos sesses such a man! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.