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Buena Vista   /bˈunə vˈɪstə/   Listen
Buena Vista

noun
1.
A pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico.






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"Buena Vista" Quotes from Famous Books



... goblets. When they got out of gin fresh supplies were brought in by slaves from a two-horse wagon outside, which had been captured that day, after a desperate and bloody struggle, by the bandits, on the plains of Buena Vista. ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 3 • Charles Farrar Browne

... have come into collision, each in its fullest maturity. The armies of the North have penetrated the chapparels at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma—passed the fortresses of Monterey, and rolled back upon the heart of Mexico the unavailing tide of strong resistance from the mountain-side of Buena Vista. Martial colonists are encamped on the coasts of California, while San Juan d'Ulloa has fallen, and the invaders have swept the gorge of Cerro Gordo—carried Perote and Puebla, and planted the banner of burning stars and ever-multiplying ...
— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward



Words linked to "Buena Vista" :   Mexican War, United Mexican States, Mexico, pitched battle



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