INDEX
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| Slidell, John, Mexican mission and rejection, 1. 91, 95-8, 100-1, 127, 145, 326, 436-9, 447, 453, 460; on Oregon and Mexican controversies, 114, 115; effect of rejection on American opinion, 120; on failure of mission, 133, 135, 181; and advance to Rio Grande, 152; report on Santa Anna's attitude, 201; and Patterson, 351; and peace negotiations, 2. 126, 387; and Conner, 202; House demand for instructions, 500. |
| Sloat, J. D., pacific instructions to (1845), 1. 131, 447; instructions on California, 326, 526, 530; hesitation, final occupation of Monterey, 333-5, 530-1; gives place to Stockton, 336; squadron, 2. 189. |
| Smith, A. J., and Mormon battalion, 1. 290. |
| Smith, Ashbel, on Polk and war, 1. 446. |
| Smith, C. F., at Resaca de la Palma, 1. 172; at Monterey, 242, 244, 498 in march to San Agustin, 2. 98; at Churubusco, 112, 115, 116, 384; battalion at Molino del Rey, 144, 145, 403; and at Chapultepec, 161. |
| Smith, D. W., American consul at Matamoros, reports cited passim. |
| Smith, Ephraim Kirby, mortally wounded at Molino del Rey, 2. 403. |
| Smith, G. W., and Cerro Gordo, 2. 349; with Scott, 366. |
| Smith, Isaac, on mistakes at Monterey, 1. 503. |
| Smith, J. L., engineer company with Scott, 2. 349, 356, 366; and plan of attack on Mexico City, 408. |
| Smith, J. M., at Churubusco, 2. 117. |
| Smith, M. L., reconnoitres Old Peñón, 2. 369. |
| Smith, P. F., brigade in march to Monterey, 1. 229, 492, 496; in the battle, 245, 498; commands at Monterey, 508; brigade, 541; and Cerro Gordo, 2. 52; brigade in Scott's army, 77; at Contreras, 104-10, 376, 379; at Churubusco, 114; at Chapultepec, 156, 158, 408, 410; in Mexico City, 163; as governor there, 226; armistice negotiations, 242, 394; and evacuation, 252, 475; on engineers, 320; court of inquiry on Worth, 361; credit for Contreras, 376; career and character, 377; not at conference on attack on capital, 408; not West Pointer, 513. |
| Smith, Sidney, and American repudiation, 2. 256. |
| Smith, William, on the war, 2. 499. |
| Smuggling, Mexican, 1. 17, 410. |
| Social conditions, in Mexico, idleness, 1. 15, 22; in country, 18; in villages and towns, 19-21; at the capital, 21-8; character of ruling class, 25-7; general conclusions, 28, 410; Mexican statement on character, 411. See also Character; Population; Roman Catholic church. |
| Society, Mexican, conditions, 1. 25; intercourse in occupied territory, 2. 230-1, 461-2. |
| Soldado, Fort, at Monterey, 1. 241; capture, 245, 498. |
| Somers, wrecked, 2. 194; in Home Squadron, 197, 442. |
| Sotepingo, captured, 2. 113. |
| Soto, Juan, and defending of Vera Cruz, 2. 22, 31, 341; and preparations below Perote, 41; and Santa Anna at Orizaba, 68. |
| South Carolina troops, call, 1. 537; in Taylor's later command, 2. 417. See also Palmetto. |
| Southampton, in Pacific squadron, 2. 447. |
| Southern Quarterly Review, on Worth, 2. 360. |
| Spain, colonial policy, 1. 29-30; and Mexican-American relations (1846), 100; and monarchy for Mexico, 448, 485, 486; and Mexican privateering, 2. 193; attitude, 297, 298; and blockade, 440, 449; and mediation, 503. See also Bermúdez de Castro; Lozano. |
| Spanish, as class in Mexico, 1. 3; merchants, 17. See also Gachupines. |
| Spanish America, and expected Mexican-American war, 1. 111; and the actual war, 2. 298. |
| Spanish language, key of pronunciation, 1. xxi. |
| Spectator, on misrule in Mexico, 2. 509. |
| Speight, Jesse, position in Senate, 2. 496. |
| Spitfire, in occupation of Tampico, 1. 279, 281; in attack on Tuxpán, 2, 203, 444; at siege of Vera Cruz, 338; in Home Squadron, 446. |
| Spooner, , Mexican Spy Company, 2. 362. |
| Springfield Illinois State Register, on war and expansion, 1. 444. |
