The Queen of the Savannah: A Story of the Mexican War
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Aimard Gustave. The Queen of the Savannah: A Story of the Mexican War
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I. THE EXPEDITION
CHAPTER II. REDSKINS AND WHITESKINS
CHAPTER III. THE RED BUFFALOES
CHAPTER IV. THE CASCABEL
CHAPTER I. THE ADVENTURERS
CHAPTER II. A NIGHT IN THE WOODS
CHAPTER III. THE SUCCOUR
CHAPTER IV. INSIDE THE HACIENDA
CHAPTER V. THE COUNCIL
CHAPTER VI. GENERAL FRAY PELAGIO
CHAPTER VII. A CONVERSATION
CHAPTER VIII. THE ENVOY
CHAPTER IX. DON MELCHIOR DÍAZ
CHAPTER X. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XI. THE SORTIE
CHAPTER XII. ON THE ROAD
CHAPTER XIII. AN ALARM
CHAPTER XIV. THE REDSKINS
CHAPTER XV. COUNT DE MELGOSA
CHAPTER XVI. DIEGO LÓPEZ
CHAPTER XVII. LEONA VICARIO
CHAPTER XVIII. THE INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XIX. THE DUNGEON
CHAPTER XX. SOTAVENTO MAKES A MOVE
CHAPTER XXI. THE COUNCIL OF THE RED BUFFALOES
CHAPTER XXII. THE WAR TRAIL
CHAPTER XXIII. THE SNARE
CHAPTER XXIV. OLIVER CLARY
CHAPTER XXV. THE WOUNDED MAN
CHAPTER XXVI. DOÑA EMILIA
CHAPTER XXVII. THE CHIEF'S PROPOSAL
CHAPTER XXVIII. PREPARATIONS FOR A RESCUE
CHAPTER XXIX. THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XXX. ON THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XXXI. THE JACAL
CHAPTER XXXII. THE PRISONER
CHAPTER XXXIII. MOONSHINE
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE TEOCALI
CHAPTER XXXV. IN THE FIELD
CHAPTER XXXVI. A YOUNG HEART
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE AMBUSH
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE PURSUIT
CHAPTER XXXIX. RUNNING WATER
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The story begins on May 5, 1805, in one of the wildest and most abrupt portions of New Spain, which now forms the State of Coahuila, belonging to the Mexican Confederation.
If the reader will have the kindness to take a glance at a numerous cavalcade, which is debouching from a canyon and scaling at a gallop the scarped side of a rather lofty hill, on the top of which stands an aldea, or village of Indios mansos, he will at the same time form the acquaintance of several of our principal characters, and the country in which the events recorded in this narrative occurred.
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According to a census made by the Washington Congress in 1858, the Indians scattered over the territory of the United States amount to 800,000.
In Mexico, where the population is only seven million, there are five million Indians and half-breeds; moreover, it is proved that in the time of Motecuhzoma the population never attained this high figure.
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