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Excerpt from Service Afloat and Ashore During the Mexican War This has been a most difficult task, and one which, he fears, he has but imperfectly accomplished. With a free pen, he has sketched persons and things, a$ he saw them; aiming rather to present the reader with truthful, than with highly-wrought pictures. In treating of the campaign, he has not pursued the beaten track, followed with so little discretion by many of his predecessors. of bestowing Indiscriminate praise upon all the actors engaged in it, but has rather sought to separate the wheat from the chaff, and bestow commendation and censure alike, where-ever he has deemed them to have been deserved, in other words he has supposed that a candid and intelligent public would be more gratified with a reliable history of the recent brilliant campaign of their army, than with an insincere and interested account which should merely flatter their vanity, and that of their generals. There never yet was a campaign without a blunder; and the campaign of the valley of Mexico is no exception to the rule; and the author has not Med to point out its blunders, any more than he has failed to bring into strong relief, its more salient and brilliant points. In conclusion, he submits his work with entire confidence, to a discriminating public, which must already have been made sick, ad nauseam, by the puerilities and puffings that have been bestowed upon the Mexican war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.