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Michigan Address of Col. Isaac D. Toll
your appreciation of the prowess of your adversaries will not be diminished when you call to mind how the lilies of France, under Forey, went down under the walls of Puebla, reinforced as he was by 35,000 men, his vanguard of 4,000 under Berthier, surprised and half destroyed, Tampico and Jalapa evacuated, and the French general obliged to call for more troops. They were not despicable foes, animated by a common religion, fighting in defence of, and in sight of, their capital, their troops well disciplined, provisioned and armed, their officers well instructed, Chepultepec their military college, where the cadets as powder monkeys, though scarcely in their teens, under the plunging shot on the 13th of September, evinced a patriotic love for their Alma Mater, and were compelled to give sufficient security to keep the peace, not being responsible, owing to their tender age. Their teachers became their bondsmen.
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