Rio

Examples

• Indeed Scott did not deem it important to hold anything beyond the Rio Grande, and authorized Taylor to fall back to that line if he chose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He founded a settlement in the Rio de Oro (on Kerne or Herne Island), and sailed on past the Senegal river. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One battery, the siege guns and all the convalescent troops were sent on by water to Brazos Santiago, at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The question was submitted to Washington, and no response was received until after the army had reached the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Accordingly, preparations were begun for moving the army to the Rio Grande, to a point near Matamoras. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As we lay in our tents upon the sea-shore, the artillery at the fort on the Rio Grande could be distinctly heard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In British Guiana the name is given to another large, much-branched tree, and there are also other varieties in Para and along the Rio Negro, which is a tributary of the Amazon River. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To Rio de Janeiro, the distance via Magellan is 8,609 miles; by the canal 7,885 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That you abandon Texas entirely, with the exception of your hold upon the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• General Patterson reached Plan del Rio with his division soon after Twiggs arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The road was broad and the country open except in crossing the Rio Frio mountain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As had been the case on the Rio Grande, the people who remained at their homes fraternized with the Yankees in the pleasantest manner. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was not at that time a single habitation from Corpus Christi until the Rio Grande was reached. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Texas, as an independent State, never had exercised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The line of the Rio Grande was all that was necessary to hold, unless it was intended to invade Mexico from the North. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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