...solemn assurance that his forces on the San Juan river had gone away to the United States, and adds : " Reduced to our present position by the cowardice of...of others, and the treachery of many, the army has written a page of American history which it is impossible to forget or to erase. From the future, if...

...solemn assurance that his forces on the San Juan river had gone away to the United States, and adds : " Reduced to our present position by the cowardice of...of others, and the treachery of many, the army has written a page of American history which it is impossible to forget or to erase. From the future, if...

...San Juan river had gone away to the United States, and adds : " Reduced to our present position hy the cowardice of some, the incapacity of others, and the treachery of many, the army has written a page of American history which it is impossible to forget or to erase. From the future, if...

...expressed his thanks to the officers and men under his command, declaring that they were reduced to their " present position by the cowardice of some, the incapacity of others, and the treachery of many," but that "the army has yet written a page of American history which it is impossible to forget or erase....

...modestly and unheroically, the freebooter records his last general order to his men before their fall: "Reduced to our present position by the cowardice...history which it is impossible to forget or erase." Walker absolves himself of responsibility for the American defeat and insists upon his place in history....

...practically quotes Walker, who issued the following proclamation as he was tossed out of the region: "Reduced to our present position by the cowardice...American history which it is impossible to forget or erase."6 A page of history would appear to be little consolation for a general being escorted away...

...to our present condition by the cowardice ofsome, the incapacity ofothers, and the treachery ofmany, the army has yet written a page of American history...is impossible to forget or erase. From the future, ifnotfrom the present, we may expect just judgment. » Cité par Brown, Agents. . . 170. Carr, The...

...sanction. The surrender took place on the 1st of May. In his last general order, Walker says that, "reduced to our present position by the cowardice...not from the present, we may expect just judgment." When the surrender was made they were in a deplorable condition. There were only alibut 260 men, including...