Resaca de la Palma

While he and his men do act with courage and dispatch, he concludes that the Americans would have won the Battle of Resaca de la Palma even if his company hadn’t been there.

A reconnoissance found General Arista’s army on the south bank of a stream, Resaca de la Palma, which at this season had dried into lagoons with intervening passes.

Mexican war, beginning of, 18; precipitated by movement to the Rio Grande, 21, 22; first hostilities, 23; Palo Alto, 25; Resaca de la Palma, 26.

May, Charles, heroism of, at Resaca de la Palma, 28.

Taylor, General Zachary, in command of “army of observation” in Louisiana, 18; moves to the Rio Grande, 21; calls for volunteers, 23; at Resaca de la Palma, 27.