CHAPTER 8. — General Taylor ordered to the Rio Grande — History of Texan boundaries — Origin of the war — Military preparations — Commencement of hostilities — Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca — Matamoros — Taylor's advance — Fall of Monterey,334
CHAPTER 9. — General Wool inspects and musters the western troops — Army of the Centre — New Mexico — Kearney — Macnamara — California — Frémont — Sonoma — Californian independence — Possession taken — Sloat — Stockton — A revolt — Pico — Treaty of Couenga — Kearney at San Pascual — is relieved — Disputes — San Gabrielle — Mesa — Los Angeles — Frémont's character, services, trial,342
CHAPTER 10. — Valley of the Rio Grande — Santa Anna at San Luis — Scott commander-in-chief — Plan of attack on the east coast — General Scott's plan — Doniphan's expedition — Bracito — Sacramento — Revolt in New Mexico — Murder of Richie — Selection of battle ground — Description of it — Battle of Angostura or Buena Vista — Mexican retreat — Tabasco — Tampico,350}}
CHAPTER 11. — Santa Anna's return — changes his principles — Salas executive — Constitution of 1824 restored — Paredes — Plans of Salas and Santa Anna — his letter to Almonte — his views of the war — refuses the Dictatorship — commands the army — State of parties in Mexico — Puros — Moderados — Santa Anna at San Luis — Peace propositions — Internal troubles — Farias's controversy with the church — Polko revolution in the capital — Vice Presidency suppressed — Important decree,358
CHAPTER 12. — General Scott at Lobos — Landing at and siege of Vera Cruz — Capitulation and condition of Vera Cruz — Condition of Mexico — Alvarado, etc., captured — Scott's advance — Description of Cerra Gordo — Mexican defences and military disposal there — Battle of Cerro Gordo — Peroté and Puebla yield — Santa Anna returns — Constitution of 1824 readopted — Mexican politics of the day — War spirit — Guerillas — Peace negotiations — Santa Anna's secret negotiations,370
CHAPTER 13. — Scott at Puebla — Tampico and Orizaba taken — Scott's advance — Topography of the Valley of Mexico — Routes to the capital — El Peñon — Mexicalzingo — Tezcoco — Chalco — Outer and inner lines around the city — Scott's advance by Chalco — The American army at San Augustin,381
CHAPTER 14. — Difficulties of the advance — The Pedregal — San Antonio — Hacienda — Relative position of American and Mexican armies — Path over the Pedregal to Contreras — Valencia disconcerts Santa Anna's plan of battle — American advance and victory at Contreras — San Antonio turned by Worth — Battle of Churubusco — Battle at the Convent and Tete de Pont — Their capture,391
CHAPTER 15. — Why the city was not entered on the 20th — Condition of the city — Deliberation of the Mexican cabinet and proposals — Reasons why General Scott proposed and granted the armistice — Deliberations of commissioners — Parties against Santa Anna — Failure of the negotiation — Mexican desire to destroy Santa Anna,400
CHAPTER 16. — Military position of the Americans at the end of the armistice — Mexican defences — Plan of attack — Reconnoissances of Scott and Mason — Importance of Mexican position at Molino del Rey — Scott's scheme of capturing the city — Battle of Molino del Rey — Reflections and criticism on this battle — Preparations to attack Chapultepec — Storming of Chapultepec and of the city Gates of San Cosmé and Belen — Retreat of the Mexican army and government — American occupation of the city of Mexico,408
CHAPTER 17. — Attack of the city mob on the army — Quitman Governor — Peña President — Congress ordered — Siege of Puebla — Lane's, Lally's, and Childs's victories — Guerrilleros broken up — Mexican politics — Anaya President — Peace negotiations — Scott's decree — Peña President — Santa Anna and Lane — Santa Anna leaves Mexico for Jamaica — Treaty entered into — Its character — Santa Cruz de Rosales — Court of Inquiry — Internal troubles — Ambassadors at Querétaro — Treaty ratified — Evacuation — Revolutionary attempts — Condition of Mexico since the war — Character of Santa Anna — Note on the military critics,420
