The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft ...: History of Mexico. 1883-87

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A. L. Bancroft, 1886
 

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Página 185 - ... madness. Yet it was the fruit of deliberate calculation. He had set fortune, fame, life itself, all upon the cast, and must abide the issue. There was no alternative in his mind but to succeed or perish. The measure he adopted greatly increased the chance of success. But to carry it into execution, in the face of an incensed and desperate soldiery, was an act of resolution that has few parallels in...

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