 | Quincy Wright - 1922 - 456 str.
...n, 1846: 12 2 Stat. 129. 18 Hamilton, Works, Hamilton, ed., 7 : 745-748. "After reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...commenced and that the two nations are now at war. "As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself,... | |
 | Charles Edward Hill - 1922 - 434 str.
...before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...invaded our territory and shed American blood upon American soil. She has proclaimed that hostilites have commenced, and that the two nations are now... | |
 | William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - 1922 - 778 str.
...May n that " We have tried every effort at reconciliation . . . but now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...has invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are... | |
 | Frederic Logan Paxson - 1924 - 636 str.
...before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...territory and shed American blood upon the American soil." Congress supported the President in his declaration, although the country was lukewarm, and the Whig... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1924 - 748 str.
...(May 13) reasons for the war, Polk could now say: "Mexico has passed the boundary [it was a disputed boundary] of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon American soil." Congress, agreeing with the President, immediately made a formal declaration of hostilities,... | |
 | Robert Ryal Miller - 1985 - 436 str.
...against Mexico. A declaration of war soon followed. Polk sent Congress a bellicose message noting, "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...territory and shed American blood upon the American soil." Only a few congressmen questioned whether that incident actually took place on American soil — the... | |
 | Francis Dunham Wormuth, Edwin Brown Firmage - 1989 - 380 str.
...message to Congress on May 1 1 . Referring solely to the collision of April 24, he told Congress that "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...has invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil." (181, III, 2292) On May 13 Congress resolved that "by the act of the Republic of... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 1990 - 412 str.
...battle ensued, with sixteen American casualties. Polk asked Congress to declare war, saying that Mexico "has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil." Folk's claim to be protecting Texas was rather weak, in view of the fact that in nine years Mexico... | |
 | Ronald Wells - 1991 - 288 str.
...Alstyne, Rising American Empire, 101—102. THE WAR WITH MEXICO RONALD A. WELLS reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...has invaded our territory, and shed American blood on American soil." Folk's war message to Congress was unique and contentious: unique because it said... | |
 | 1993 - 466 str.
...of his deviousness in 1846 when he sent Congress a message claiming that, "after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are at war." Not even Texas claimed the soil on which the blood was actually shed; but an extremely willful... | |
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The cup of forbearance had been exhausted even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood... 
