Identifier: from1800to1900wo00morr (find matches)
Title: From 1800 to 1900. The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., A.B. Kuhlman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n, and cannot, in allhuman probability, avoid suffering rout and being cut to pieces with yourtroops. Such were the alarming words with which the Mexican generalaccompanied a summons to General Taylor to surrender within an hour.Taylors answer was polite but brief. In answer to your note of this datesummoning me to surrender my forces at discretion, I beg leave to say thatI decline acceeding to your request. General Taylor, or Rough and Ready as he was affectionately calledby his men. had long before—he was now sixty-three years old—won his spurson the battlefield. He was short, round-shouldered, and stout. His fore-head was high, his eyes keen, his mouth firm, with the lower lip protruding,his hair snow-white, and his expression betokened his essentially humaneand unassuming character. No private could have lived in simpler fashion.When he could escape from his uniform he wore a linen roundabout, cottontrousers, and a straw hat, and, if it rained, an old brown overcoat. In battle
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BATTLE OF RESACA DE LA PALMA Captain May leaped his steed over the parapets, followed by those i f his men whose horses could do a like eat, and was among the gunners the next moment, sabering them right and left. < ,en. ra) La Vega and a hundred of his men were made prisoners and borne back to the American lines.

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