Resaca de la Palma
Americannoun
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While he and his men do act with courage and dispatch, he concludes that the Americans would have won the Battle of Resaca de la Palma even if his company hadn’t been there.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2018
After the battles at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma a call was made upon the people of Ohio for two regiments of volunteers.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John
When war had been declared, the Pacific squadron did not learn of it until after the victories of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.
Taylor, General Zachary, in command of “army of observation” in Louisiana, 18; moves to the Rio Grande, 21; calls for volunteers, 23; at Resaca de la Palma, 27.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
On the next day was the battle of Resaca de la Palma, in which he was acting adjutant in place of the officer killed.
From Ulysses S. Grant by Allen, Walter
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