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END OF THE MEXICAN WAR – Head Quarters Army of Mexico, Mexico, March 6, ’48. Orders, No. 18. … Military Convention for the Provisional Suspension of Hostilities. [Mexico City: Army field press, 1848.]
U.S. troops suspend hostilities in Mexico: a rare broadside printed at the scene in English by the Army field press. “Article II of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed 2 February 1848, provided for holding meeting between representatives of the heads of the two armies to work out ‘a provisional suspension of hostilities.’ This broadside signed in writing as official by Irwin McDowell, then in the adjutant general's department at Mexico. Gives the terms for such suspension of hostilities and marks, for all practical purposes, the end of the Mexican War” (Streeter). The present is the only copy which appears in the auction records apart from the Streeter copy, acquired from Forest Sweet. Streeter 248.
One page, folio (442 x 308mm). (Old folds and minor soiling, verso with some strengthening to centerfold.)
U.S. troops suspend hostilities in Mexico: a rare broadside printed at the scene in English by the Army field press. “Article II of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed 2 February 1848, provided for holding meeting between representatives of the heads of the two armies to work out ‘a provisional suspension of hostilities.’ This broadside signed in writing as official by Irwin McDowell, then in the adjutant general's department at Mexico. Gives the terms for such suspension of hostilities and marks, for all practical purposes, the end of the Mexican War” (Streeter). The present is the only copy which appears in the auction records apart from the Streeter copy, acquired from Forest Sweet. Streeter 248.
One page, folio (442 x 308mm). (Old folds and minor soiling, verso with some strengthening to centerfold.)