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... position on our frontier as a military post , from which our troops could best resist and repel any attempted invasion which Mexico might make . Our Army had occupied a position at Corpus Christi , west of the Nueces , as early as ...
... position on our frontier as a military post , from which our troops could best resist and repel any attempted invasion which Mexico might make . Our Army had occupied a position at Corpus Christi , west of the Nueces , as early as ...
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... position . If it is , it is a position that neither the President himself , nor any friend of his , so far as I know , has ever taken . Their only positions are first , that the soil was ours where hostilities commenced , and second ...
... position . If it is , it is a position that neither the President himself , nor any friend of his , so far as I know , has ever taken . Their only positions are first , that the soil was ours where hostilities commenced , and second ...
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... position of assistant secretary of the navy he continued his campaign , working equally hard to convince outstanding senators and members of the McKinley administration to support annexation . He wrote guardedly to Mahan in 1897 with ...
... position of assistant secretary of the navy he continued his campaign , working equally hard to convince outstanding senators and members of the McKinley administration to support annexation . He wrote guardedly to Mahan in 1897 with ...
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The Ambivalence of the Concept of Party | 597 |
The Formative Period | 603 |
In Search of Victory | 615 |
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