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THE MEXICAN PARADOX

in 1845, the Mexican War was a series of unexampled victories, from Palo Alto to Buena Vista on the North, from Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo to the Mexican Capital on the South.

Successes so brilliant would apparently denote the perfection of military policy, yet paradoxical as it may seem, they were achieved under the same system of laws and [111]