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Excerpt from A Review of the Life, Character and Political Opinions of Zachary Taylor
But if any proof were yet wanting of the courage, resource and determination of the brave old chief, it is to be found upon the field of Buena Vista. Despoiled as he had been by the Government, of the most efficient portion of his army, to swell the train of Gen. Scott, in the new campaign which had been projected upon Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico, he was left to his own resources, and the chance of war. Under serious disadvantages, and with a force greatly dis proportioned to that of the enemy, he engaged and defeated the Mexican army, in one of the most hotly contested and summary battles to be found anywhere in modern history. The victory of Buena Vista closed the brilliant career of Gen. Taylor in Mexico. From this time the attention of the administration (and to some extent of the people of the country) was attracted towards Gen. Scott and the devious path that lay before him to the Halls of Montezuma. But as far as any acquisition of territory or indemnity obtained, was concerned, the war was virtually closed.
As a result of the war, and the treaty since ratified with the Mexican govern ment, California and New Mexico have become the property of the United States we have acquired a territory of more than square miles, and a population of nearly an hundred thousand, independently of Texas, whose terri tory covers an area of upward of square miles, and is capable of making nearly fifty states of the size of Massachusetts.
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