Butler, William Orlando, 1791-1880 [Military convention for the provisional suspension of hostilities]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02561 Author/Creator: Butler, William Orlando, 1791-1880 Place Written: Mexico City, Mexico Type: Broadside Date: 6 March 1848 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 43.3 cm, Width: 31.5 cm Order a Copy
Order No. 18, ratified by William Orlando Butler as Major General Commanding on March 5,1848. Signed by Adjutant Irvin McDowell. Orders a suspension of hostilities following seventeen articles by the Military Convention. The Convention provisions were made at Guadalupe Hidalgo before the treaty ending the war.
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