The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848, a History of the Relations Between the Two Countries From the Independence of Mexico to the Close of the War With the United States; Volume 2
The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848, a History of the Relations Between the Two Countries From the Independence of Mexico to the Close of the War With the United States; Volume 2
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...a few miles west of Jalapa, but on a further examination of the ground he determined to intrench the pass of Cerro Gordo, twenty miles east of Jalapa. The high-road which ran from Vera Cruz in a generally westerly direction reached, near this point, the first foot-hills of the tremendous range of mountains ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...a few miles west of Jalapa, but on a further examination of the ground he determined to intrench the pass of Cerro Gordo, twenty miles east of Jalapa. The high-road which ran from Vera Cruz in a generally westerly direction reached, near this point, the first foot-hills of the tremendous range of mountains which forms the easterly boundary of the great central plateau of Mexico. At a small village known as Plan del Rio, the road turned abruptly northward, and crossed a little stream known as the Rio del Plan over a fine stone bridge thrown across upon a single arch, and then began the long ascent to Jalapa, which lies nearly three thousand feet above the sea. Running at first northwardly, the road crossed by a zigzag a ridge of hills, and then turned and ran northwesterly for about a mile and a half through a hilly country, when it turned again sharply to the southwest, until it regained the bank of the river at a point nearly three miles above the bridge, the stream at this part of its course running through a deep and precipitous canon. The road therefore, for about three miles above the bridge, formed, roughly speaking, an arc of a circle, of which the river--flowing nearly east and west--formed the chord. In the space between chord and arc, and close to the river, there are a number of steep hills which were covered for the most part with a dense and thorny chaparral. West of the point where the road first reached the river, after crossing the bridge at Plan del Rio, and dominating all the surrounding hills, is a very steep, isolated, conical mountain known as Cerro Gordo (thick ridge); and the road as it ran along the eastern base of this hill, and between it and the hills near the river, traversed a savage defile that formed the pass of...
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