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 Rh pillage, while these sought only justice and reparation for deep offences.

The Mexican nation made one more effort through her indomitable president for concerted action. Santa Anna frantically appealed to them to forget all domestic differences and unite against a common foe. "Though chance," he proclaimed, "may decree the fall of the capital of the Aztec empire under the power of the proud American host, yet the Nation shall not perish!"

By the middle of April Scott had left behind him the hot