To the Halls of the Montezumas
Subtitle: The Mexican War in the American Imagination
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 21, 1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780195049817
First sentence: Early in February 1846, Zachary Taylor, commanding a force of fewer than 4000 men camped at the mouth of the Nueces River near Corpus Christi, Texas, received orders from the War Department to prepare for the 150-mile march to the Rio Grande.