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Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876 [Rewards to deserters of the U.S. Army]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06366.06 Author/Creator: Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876 Place Written: Mexico Type: Document Date: 15 August 1847 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.3 cm, Width: 16 cm Order a Copy

Offers the rewards of happiness, beautiful land, and friendly people to soldiers who desert from the U.S. Army. Says that the Americans have earned nothing but contempt from Mexicans and Europeans by fighting, unprovoked, in Mexico.

Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876

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