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INDEX
| Boston Atlas, demand for war, 1. 456 ; on Folk's Cabinet, 2. 270; on Polk, 275, 276; on outlook of war, 277; encourages enemy, 280; on tariff, 286; on Folk's war policy, 288. |
| Botts, J. M., opposes war, 1. 189. |
| Bouck, W. C., federal appointment, 2. 271. |
| Boundaries, Mexican negotiation on Louisiana Purchase, 1. 59-61, 418; Sabine River, 63; offer of compensation for proper Texan, 84-5, 88, 91, 95, 436; southern, of Texas, 138, 449, 457, 470; Texan, in peace negotiations, 2. 135-6, 238, 396, 399, 463, 464, 469. See also Annexations. |
| Bounty in Ten Regiment Bill, 2. 364, 490. |
| Bowles, W. A., at Buena Vista, 1. 388, 390, 391, 555, 557. |
| Boyd, J. McH., American chargé at London, reports cited passim. |
| Bragg, Braxton, force in Texas, 1. 146, 452; at Fort Brown, 163; at Monterey, 251, 254, 492, 496; at Buena Vista, 388, 390-2, 395, 555, 557, 558; on reports, 404; field battery, 450; in Harney's brigade, 541; on Scott's order against the cabal, 2. 436; sent to New Mexico, 475. |
| Bravo, Nicolás, as partisan leader, 1. 32; revolt against Itúrbide, 35 ; Presidential candidacy, 37; attempted revolt (1827), 38; pardoned, 44; acting President (1846), reforms, 217; and revolt, 217; incites against United States, 418 ; and Santa Anna (1847), 2. 82, 83; retires, 84; at Churubusco, 113, 117 ; and desire for peace, 122; at Chapultepec, surrenders, 153, 155, 157, 408, 411; and guerilla warfare, 173. |
| Bravos battalion, formation, 2. 3; at Churubusco, 111. |
| Brazito affair, 1. 301-2, 518. |
| Brazos Island, camp, 1. 205. |
| Breckenridge, H. M., claims commissioner, 1. 430. |
| Breese, Sidney, position in Senate, 2. 496. |
| Bribery money in peace negotiations, 2. 131-2, 390. |
| Bridgehead at Churubusco, 2. Ill ; maps, 112, 113; attack and capture, 114-6, 383. |
| Briggs, G. N., on attitude toward war, 2. 492. |
| Brinkerhoff, Jacob, and advance to Rio Grande, 1. 456; position in House, 2. 496; and Wilmot Proviso, 498. |
| Briscoe, W. F., guerilla attack on, 2. 423. |
| Britannia, on American army, 1. 105 ; on military titles, 2. 295; on people, 295; on Polk, 300; on conquests in India, 302; on guerilla warfare, 306; criticism of military operations, 307, 308; on absorption of Mexico, 309. |
| British in Mexico, merchants, 1. 5, 17; mining companies, 15. |
| Broglie, Duc de, and war, 2. 303. |
| Brokers, in Mexican public finances, 2. 327. |
| Brooke, G. M., and reinforcement of Tampico, 1. 282, 512; and alarm over Buena Vista, 400. |
| Brooks, W. T. H., at Contreras, 2. 108. |
| Brough, C. H., in Lane's march to Puebla, 2. 426. |
| Brown,, American agent to Santa Anna, 1. 479. |
| Brown, Jacob, at Fort Brown, 1. 163 ; killed, 176, 468. |
| Brown, Milton, on advance to Rio Grande, 1. 457. |
| Brown, Fort, construction, position, map, 1. 148, 159, 463, 468; attack on, and battle of Resaca de la Palma, 164, 176, 467-9; former names, 454. |
| Bryce, James, on justice of expansion, 2. 323. |
| Buchanan, James, and Almonte, 1. 87; and Slidell mission, instructions, 95, 100, 127, 436-7; on war spirit, 126; on peaceful policy, 131; and monarchist plans in Mexico, 135, 448 ; and southern boundary of Texas, 139; and California, 327; and defensive-line policy, 348; and Patterson, 351; and war programme, 351; and Parrott, 434; and Gillespie, 528; desire for peace negotiations, 2. 121; overtures (1846), 122, 386; and Trist, 127, 128; appearance, 128; and recall of Trist, 236, 237, 464; and absorption of Mexico, 243, 244; opposes treaty, 246, 471; as Cabinet officer, 282; and Dallas faction, 282; circular and conciliation of European opinion, 297, 502; and British offer of mediation, 301, 504; and Beach, 331; and Scott-Trist, 390; does not expect peace, 391; on Texas and Kearny's occupation of New Mexico, 497; and annexation and slavery, 502; and Polk, 510. |
