Attack and Counterattack : : The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842 / / Joseph Milton Nance.
It is 1842—a dramatic year in the history of Texas-Mexican relations. After five years of uneasy peace, of futile negotiations, of border raids and temporary, unofficial truces, a series of military actions upsets the precarious balance between the two countries. Once more the Mexican Army marches o...
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