Mexican

Examples

• The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the regular army, from highest to lowest, were educated in their profession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexican war was a political war, and the administration conducting it desired to make party capital out of it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was a stranger to most of the Army of the Potomac, I might say to all except the officers of the regular army who had served in the Mexican war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The attack was made, the Mexican reserves behind the works beat a hasty retreat, and those occupying them surrendered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My transfer carried me to the company of Captain McCall, who resigned from the army after the Mexican war and settled in Philadelphia. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When Camargo was reached, we found a city of tents outside the Mexican hamlet. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was seen that the volunteers of the Mexican war largely composed the pioneers to settle up the Pacific coast country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Pemberton and I had served in the same division during part of the Mexican War. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A better army, man for man, probably never faced an enemy than the one commanded by General Taylor in the earliest two engagements of the Mexican war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There are other excellent varieties of vanilla beans, but they have a somewhat ranker flavor than the Mexican. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Nearly every Mexican carried a pouch of leaf tobacco, powdered by rolling in the hands, and a roll of corn husks to make wrappers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had been three years at West Point with Pope and had served with him a short time during the Mexican war, under General Taylor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The American traders and Mexican smugglers came to the relief. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the Mexican war in the summer of 1846, I had been appointed regimental quartermaster and commissary and had not been at a battalion drill since. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexican general reminded us that it was a violation of the truce for us to be there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexicans used to capture these in large numbers and bring them into the American settlements and sell them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were not men enough in the army to manage that train without the help of Mexicans who had learned how. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexicans all the way back to the city could see the same thing, and their conduct showed plainly that they did not enjoy the sight. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexicans were not so discriminating. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexicans have shown a patriotism which it would be well if we would imitate in part, but with more regard to truth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• San Antonio was about equally divided in population between Americans and Mexicans. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexicans had, before the arrival of the army, but little to offer in exchange except silver. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexicans immediately opened fire upon us, first with artillery and then with infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexicans were giving way all along the line, and many of them had, no doubt, left early. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To obviate the deficiency, pack mules were hired, with Mexicans to pack and drive them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was valuable to the Mexicans because of the quantity of grain it contained. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexicans were armed about as we were so far as their infantry was concerned, but their artillery only fired solid shot. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The reports stated that the Mexicans had been panning gold for a hundred years out of these deposits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• General Taylor halted his army before the head of column came in range of the artillery of the Mexicans. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Mexicans were very kind to us, however, and threw no obstacles in the way of our landing except an occasional shot from their nearest fort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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