CHAPTER XIV

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VERA CRUZ, CERRO GORDO, CONTRERAS, CHURUBUSCO, MOLINO DEL REY, CHAPULTEPEC, THE OCCUPATION OF THE CITY OF MEXICO

By _John Bonner_.

Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Conquest of Mexico, 1847, and the Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 1861.