Uncle Sam Forces Move Rapidly to Mexico
News report details swift U S military and naval mobilization in Mexico crisis. Troops, ships and supplies moved from league island and Brooklyn yards to El Paso and Vera Cruz. Key figures include General Leonard Wood and Rear Admiral Badger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sams
Mexico
League Island Navy Yard
Leonard Wood
Army
Badger
Navy
Morro Castle
Philadelphia
United States
Galveston
Tex
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Huerta
Wilson
el Paso
San Francisco
Navy flying squadron trains for Veracruz front service
The article describes a U S Navy flying squadron of about thirty airmen aboard the Mississippi preparing for front service at Vera Cruz. It contrasts the new torpedo-like flying boats with the old slow battleships and notes drone practice at Guantanamo and Pensacola, with pilots eager to test the first actual service use of aerial forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maximo Castillo
Daniels
Mexico
Wilson
Vera Cruz
Pensacola
Fla
Mississippi
Admiral Ichley
Minneapolis
Columbia
Brooklyn
Texas
Massachusetts
Chesapeake Bay
Tripoli
Adrianople
Navy
Guantanamo
Walton Liams
Texas Rangers: legends of daring on the border
The Texas Rangers are celebrated for fearless frontier fighting. Accounts recount Hayes era exploits at Monterey and Pierdenales, Gillespie’s rifle shot against a Comanche chief, and long chases led by captains Hughes and McNally across the Big Bend to redeem the border with swift justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Texas Rangers
Chicago
John Coffee Hayes
Zachary Taylor
Monterey
Hayes
Gillespie
Kayes
Indiana
Pierdenales
W. J. MacDonald
Rangers
John R. Hughes
Hughes
Big Bend
Rio Grande
Southern Pacific
Dryden
United States
L. H. McNally
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John J. Breen
Twelfth Cavalry
Mercado
Castro
Salazar
Roberto
Orpinal
Lopez
Navy Yards
New York
American Press Association
Washington
Fort Bliss
Elo Paso
Villa
Ojinaga
Fort Wingate
New Mexico
Kecnly
Photos
Navy Flying Boat
Inter
Vexicans
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