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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 18 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 14 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 14 0 Browse Search
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army 10 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 6 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1863., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Contreras (New Mexico, United States) or search for Contreras (New Mexico, United States) in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the American army. (search)
could not keep their ranks; and the small but compact villages of Contreras, San Antonio, and Churubusco formed a line on that same ground dileagues in length, enabling the artillery to come within range of Contreras, and securing at the same time the communications of the army witout falling into the greatest disorder. When arrived in front of Contreras and San Antonio, the Americans meet with a more vigorous resistan of the night to place itself in the very rear of the position of Contreras, and the defenders of the place only become aware of this bold mas fourteen officers before Molino del Rey. But, as it happened at Contreras, this check is soon turned into a victory. Seeing their line bro place there the siege-guns brought from Vera Cruz or captured at Contreras, whose fire is to batter down the thick walls of the castle. Dese entire confidence of General Scott, directed at Cerro Gordo and Contreras the construction of the roads which secured the victorious moveme