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I have one gift of the strong man I am inexorable when I make for my end. As a general, I would pour men into the maw of death as corn into the hopper, if that would build a bridge to my end. You call to mind how those Spaniards conquered the Mexique city which was all canals like Venice?
See Colonel Loizillon, "Lettres sur l'Expedition du Mexique," p. 101. The town was built in blocks. Each block, fortified and defended by the besieged, must be fought for and carried by assault, at terrible cost of life on the part of the French, whose close ranks were fired upon with murderous effect from the roofs and windows on both sides of the streets.
It is entitled "Carte de la Louisiane ou des Voyages du St de la Salle et des pays qu'il a decouverts depuis la Nouvelle France jusqu'au Golfe Mexique les annees 1679, 80, 81 et 82. par Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin. l'an 1684. Paris." Franquelin was a young engineer, who held the post of hydrographer to the king, at Quebec, in which Joliet succeeded him.
But most emphatically NOT by Mexique, who spent a half-hour talking to the nouveau in his own tongue, then drifted placidly over to our beds and informed us: "You see dat feller over dere, dat fat feller? I speak Spanish to him. He no good. Son of bitch!" "Dat fat feller" lived in a perfectly huge bed which he contrived to have brought up for him immediately upon his arrival.
"I t'ink every-body no hit me" he added, regarding his stocky person with great and quiet amusement. When we asked him once what he thought about the war, he replied, "I t'ink lotta bull ," which, upon copious reflection, I decided absolutely expressed my own point of view. Mexique was generous, incapable of either stupidity or despondency, and mannered as a gentleman is supposed to be.
There is but one fall on the river, that of Louisville, which is not so high as to deserve to be described as "fort haut," being only a strong rapid. Over the lines representing the Ohio are the words, "Route du sieur de la Salle pour aller dans le Mexique."
The other map of Joliet bears, also written over the Ohio, the words, "Riviere par ou descendit le sieur de la Salle au sortir du lac Erie pour aller clans le Mexique."
The T.R. now entered, very terrible to see, having been patched up by Monsieur Richard with copious plasters. His nose was not broken, he said thickly, but only bent. He hinted darkly of trouble in store for le noir; and received the commiserations of everyone present except Mexique, The Zulu, B. and me. Jean's spirit was broken.
Reconcile factions, establish a durable peace based upon solid principles." See Dr. Basch, "Maximilien au Mexique," p. 303. After making this supreme effort on behalf of his generals, he employed his remaining hours in dictating letters, and when night came he slept soundly.
* "Au Mexique, 1862: Combats et Retraite des Six Mille, par le Prince Georges Bibesco. Prince Bibesco was intrusted with drawing up the monthly official reports sent by the Corps Expeditionnaire to the War Office in 1862, and is therefore a trustworthy guide for that period.
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