Travels over the table lands and cordilleras of Mexico. During the years 1843 and 44; including a description of California and the biographies of Iturbide and Santa Anna (1846) (14595657748)

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Title: Travels over the table lands and cordilleras of Mexico. During the years 1843 and 44; including a description of California ... and the biographies of Iturbide and Santa Anna
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Gilliam, Albert M
Subjects: Iturbide, Agustín de, 1783-1824 Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876 Mexico -- Description and travel Pacific Coast (Calif.) Pacific Coast (Mexico)
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Moore (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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APPENDIX. OREGON. View of Oi-egon. Description of Upjier and Lower California, with a map of those countries.Biograpliits of the Enipeior Don Augustin Iturbide, and the Ex-Dictaior Antonio LopezDe Santa Anna, comprising rapid outlines of the political histoiy of Mexico and theTeNan Kevolutiou. There have been epochs in the history of the world whenthe eyes of all nations were directed to the advance ofpower and ambition on the one part, and the overthrow andsubjugation of empires on the other. Such were the con-quests of Sesostris,—a world won by an Alexander,—thechivalry of the Crusaders,—the freak of fortune of Charlesthe V.—the triumphs of Napoleon,—and the wide-spreadmilitary dominion of the Isles of Britain. Such revolutions in the Christian, social, and politicalamelioration of the condition of mankind, can, without thepossibility of a doubt, be divined to have been the finger ofGod, conducting the fallen race of man through his own ig-noble gore, from a groveling and

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