All Videos Tagged 1847 (MyTown Colorado) - MyTown Colorado2024-05-03T10:41:36Zhttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=1847&rss=yes&xn_auth=noTHE BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA 1847tag:www.mytowncolorado.com,2012-12-12:2021996:Video:1369342012-12-12T12:41:48.845ZPatrick C Allenhttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/PatrickCAllen
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</a><br />THE BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA -1847 Fought on Feb 22 and 23, 1847 in and around Buena Vista, a village of the State of Coahuila, Mexico, 5 miles s. of Saltillo. ...Students can also use this poem as an aid for learning tough history lessons or just simply enjoy the movie.<br />
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Copyright 2013 and All Right Reserved.<br />
Produced in Bristly Pine Studios.<br />
Art & musical arrangement provided by: Patrick Clelland Allen<br />
Poetry Written by: Lewis Paul Hyatt<br />
QUICK TRANSCRIPT (Below)<br />
THE BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA-1847<br />
The U.S. War with Mexico<br />
Was about ten months old<br />
In battles in North Mexico<br />
Each army very bold<br />
The U.S. forces had success<br />
In taking Monterrey<br />
But greater battles would soon come<br />
More fighting on the way<br />
The old general Zac Taylor<br />
Was there in high command<br />
Of troops in Northern Mexico<br />
To fight and conquer land<br />
Big decisions in Washington<br />
Reduced Zac Taylor's band<br />
From some more than ten thousand men<br />
To just a small command<br />
That left his total army troop<br />
At less than five thousand<br />
To fight the Mexican army<br />
And hold the conquered land<br />
Zac Taylor's force had limits too<br />
On training for the war<br />
They nearly all were volunteers<br />
Experience below par<br />
Santa Anna had a big force<br />
Of twenty thousand men<br />
Away far south in Mexico<br />
Not soon to fight again<br />
Then word came up from way down south<br />
That Santa Anna's force<br />
Was coming north to hit the Yanks<br />
And make their lives much worse<br />
Zac Taylor and his leadership<br />
Conferred and made a plan<br />
To fall back north from Monterrey<br />
And take a better stand<br />
The best stop they could find to make<br />
A good defensive place<br />
At the pass of Angostura<br />
Meet the foe face to face<br />
This Angostura Pass locale<br />
Had far better terrain<br />
Where the valley was not so wide<br />
Better control, maintain<br />
That pass was also near the place<br />
That gave the battle name<br />
Buena Vista Hacienda<br />
The war brought it the fame<br />
Zac Taylor and his small army<br />
Positioned on the hills<br />
Big guns and ready soldiers<br />
Good fighters and strong wills<br />
Santa Anna with his big force<br />
Moved up the valley too<br />
To attack Zac Taylor's command<br />
And beat them black and blue<br />
Santa Anna deployed his troops<br />
To what he thought was right<br />
To surround, capture Taylor's force<br />
War prisoners don't fight<br />
Santa Anna made his demand<br />
To Taylor to give up<br />
Taylor promptly gave his reply<br />
To decline such a cup<br />
Santa Anna's great big army<br />
Attacked the smaller band<br />
Zac Taylor's men fought back fiercely<br />
Bravely they held their stand<br />
The battle raged all the day long<br />
And far into the night<br />
Americans readied for more<br />
The next at daylight<br />
Then when the new day dawned in light<br />
The Mexicans had gone<br />
They retreated back to the south<br />
Not ready to fight on<br />
That February twenty-third<br />
Was the big battle day<br />
Eighteen forty-seven the year<br />
Victory was the pay