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NAVIDAD 2014
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Por: Pablo Ramos
Cuando termino la Batalla de Monterrey de 1846
los regiomontanos y norteamericanos convivieron en meses y pasaron la Navidad en la tranquila ciudad de Monterrey, algunos mas como el Capitán Napoleón T. Dana partieron por ordenes del General Taylor a Victoria Tamaulipas el 15 de diciembre dias antes de la Navidad del 1846, en el trayecto pasarían por varias ciudades entre ellas Montemorelos donde en una nostalgia por su país y sus costumbres prepararían el ponche de huevo o EGGNOG ,veamos además el moderno concepto de Navidad y la proclama de Mariano Salas cuando Monterrey capitulo.
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CAMP THREE MILES BEYOND MONTEMORELOS 26 DICIEMBRE 1846.
Carta Napoleon T. Dana a su Esposa desde Montemorelos Nuevo León a los EU.
"Ellos salieron de Monterrey el 15 de diciembre con rumbo a Victoria Tamaulipas en el trayecto pasaron por varias poblaciones a saber, Monterrey, Guadalupe Cadereyta, Montemorelos, Linares, hasta llegar a Victoria , en cada trecho de viaje era de 15 a 20 millas, donde pasaba el ejercito de EU observaban los pequeños pueblos en muchos de ellos cometieron atrocidades o se casarían con mujeres neoleonesas como el Dr. Robert Welch que se caso con Genoveva García de Montemorelos Nuevo Leon, veamos este relato del soldado Dana que posteriormente regresaría a los EU siendo herido en Tampico, y seria un General en la Guerra Civil Norteamericana, veamos como paso la noche de Navidad en Montemorelos Nuevo León Mexico"..............
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CAMP THREE MILES BEYOND MONTEMORELOS 26 DICIEMBRE 1846.
wast that a great way to spend our christmas day dearest one, different from the last one where we had a plenity of eggnog,cake and so forth and nice comfortable homes in the bosoms of our families. we were really bright and happy and cheerful then ,but now dread war separates us and markes us comparatively wretched.
it was well night dark when we got our tents pitches and had our suppers after that we had all got our beds rolled down and were quietly talking over the events of the day and prospects for the future capitan holmes happened to think that he had a bottle of whiskey and told me if i would agree to marke an eggnog he would produce the ingredients. of course i easily agreed and after the necessities were brought forth capitan ross and myself set to work to make the eggnog you know I never did succeed in beating the white of an egg and this time too i colud not make the froth stiff enough .
however we succeeded in turning out for our christmas frolic a tolerably good glass of eggnog apiece for holmes, ross,hanson,little,and myself. it was the first eggnog i had been treated to since that night when you made us some at your fathers house and it tasted mighty nice i could easily have drunk another glass if i could have found it but it is hard to will such things in the midst of a wilderness and especially a mexican wilderness.....
it was well night dark when we got our tents pitches and had our suppers after that we had all got our beds rolled down and were quietly talking over the events of the day and prospects for the future capitan holmes happened to think that he had a bottle of whiskey and told me if i would agree to marke an eggnog he would produce the ingredients. of course i easily agreed and after the necessities were brought forth capitan ross and myself set to work to make the eggnog you know I never did succeed in beating the white of an egg and this time too i colud not make the froth stiff enough .
however we succeeded in turning out for our christmas frolic a tolerably good glass of eggnog apiece for holmes, ross,hanson,little,and myself. it was the first eggnog i had been treated to since that night when you made us some at your fathers house and it tasted mighty nice i could easily have drunk another glass if i could have found it but it is hard to will such things in the midst of a wilderness and especially a mexican wilderness.....
i slept mighty las night and did not wake up until the sound of our early reveille oroused me we were on our march as early as usual at the earliest dawn and at sunrise were getting our wagon train over the big hill. at ten o clock we passed through the ugly little town of montemorelos forded the river this side of it and are now encamped three ,iles this side of the ford on our way to victoria. capitan holmes and little are both snoring away taking a nap and making up for lost sleep.....general taylor passed through here las night and understand that he recived dispaches for camargo .
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CAMP TRES MILLAS MÁS ALLÁ DE MONTEMORELOS
a 26 de diciembre 1846
Era una buena manera de pasar el día bueno de Navidad , a diferencia de la navidad anterior, donde tuvimos una mayor cantidad de ponche de huevo, pastel y así sucesivamente y bonitas casas cómodas con nuestras familias. donde era muy brillante y feliz y alegre, pero ahora tememos guerra nos separa y nos hace comparativamente miserables.
Ya estaba bien oscura la noche cuando llegamos a nuestras carpas y tuvimos nuestras cenas después de que todos habíamos tendido nuestras camas estábamos tranquilamente hablando sobre los acontecimientos del día y las perspectivas para el futuro, cuando el Capitán Holmes recordó que él tenía una botella de whisky y me dijo que si yo estaría de acuerdo en hacer un ponche de huevo que produciría los ingredientes. Por supuesto que con facilidad de acuerdo y después de que las necesidades fueran hechas para el Capitan Ross, me puse a trabajar para hacer el ponche de huevo sabes que nunca logró vencer a la clara de un huevo y también esta vez yo no hice la espuma lo suficientemente rígido. sin embargo logramos resultando para nuestra fiesta de Navidad un tolerablemente buena copa de ponche de huevo para cada uno para Holmes, Ross, Hanson, Little, y yo mismo. que fue el primer ponche de huevo que había tomado desde aquella noche cuando nos hicieron algunos en la casa de tus padres y sabía muy bueno, me podría haber bebido otra copa si hubiera mas , pero es difícil de querer esas cosas en el medio de un desierto y sobre todo un desierto mexicano ..... dormí poderosamente toda la noche y no me desperté hasta que el sonido de nuestra diana muy temprano me despertó, nos alistamos para nuestra marcha , como de costumbre a la mayor brevedad del amanecer y ya estábamos poniendo nuestra caravana sobre la gran colina. A las diez de la Mañana pasamos por la pequeña ciudad fea de Montemorelos vadeado el río de este lado de él y ahora están acampados de este lado del vado en nuestro camino a Victoria.
El Capitán Holmes y Little están roncando mucho al tomar una siesta y hacer el sueño perdido ..... El General Taylor pasó por aquí la noche y dijo que él recibió por despachos de Camargo pero no menciono el contenido.
Ya estaba bien oscura la noche cuando llegamos a nuestras carpas y tuvimos nuestras cenas después de que todos habíamos tendido nuestras camas estábamos tranquilamente hablando sobre los acontecimientos del día y las perspectivas para el futuro, cuando el Capitán Holmes recordó que él tenía una botella de whisky y me dijo que si yo estaría de acuerdo en hacer un ponche de huevo que produciría los ingredientes. Por supuesto que con facilidad de acuerdo y después de que las necesidades fueran hechas para el Capitan Ross, me puse a trabajar para hacer el ponche de huevo sabes que nunca logró vencer a la clara de un huevo y también esta vez yo no hice la espuma lo suficientemente rígido. sin embargo logramos resultando para nuestra fiesta de Navidad un tolerablemente buena copa de ponche de huevo para cada uno para Holmes, Ross, Hanson, Little, y yo mismo. que fue el primer ponche de huevo que había tomado desde aquella noche cuando nos hicieron algunos en la casa de tus padres y sabía muy bueno, me podría haber bebido otra copa si hubiera mas , pero es difícil de querer esas cosas en el medio de un desierto y sobre todo un desierto mexicano ..... dormí poderosamente toda la noche y no me desperté hasta que el sonido de nuestra diana muy temprano me despertó, nos alistamos para nuestra marcha , como de costumbre a la mayor brevedad del amanecer y ya estábamos poniendo nuestra caravana sobre la gran colina. A las diez de la Mañana pasamos por la pequeña ciudad fea de Montemorelos vadeado el río de este lado de él y ahora están acampados de este lado del vado en nuestro camino a Victoria.
El Capitán Holmes y Little están roncando mucho al tomar una siesta y hacer el sueño perdido ..... El General Taylor pasó por aquí la noche y dijo que él recibió por despachos de Camargo pero no menciono el contenido.
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PROCLOMATION OF GENERAL SALAS, THE ACTING PRESIDENT, TO THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO, ANNOUNCING THE LOSS OF MONTEREY:
Mexicans! A government established against the will of the nation is interested in concealing from it events which are disastrous to it; above all, when the responsibility of their occurrences must fall upon the government. A government whose sentiments and interest are no other than those of the nation, and which has emanated from the movement by which it threw off its oppressors, has no need to conceal anything from it, for the nation itself must combat for its preservation and for its honor.
Mexicans! Monterey has fallen. It was not enough to defy death, as our valiant fellow-countrymen did for four days; it was necessary to do more, to defy want in every shape, and the insufficiency of means of resistance. The intention of the enemy to occupy the whole republic is manifest; but the government is determined to triumph or parish with the republic. Partial disasters are of no importance; the Spanish nation suffered much more in the space of six years, and the results of her heroic efforts, and the co-operation of all her sons, was that the bones of a half million unjust invaders whiten the fields of the peninsula. Shall we become unworthy of independence, by not showing ourselves sons worth y of out fathers? The independence was achieved by us alone, only after ten years of constancy; and it is not possible that an organized nation should show less strength than its oppressed sons, such as our first leaders were.
Mexicans! A government established against the will of the nation is interested in concealing from it events which are disastrous to it; above all, when the responsibility of their occurrences must fall upon the government. A government whose sentiments and interest are no other than those of the nation, and which has emanated from the movement by which it threw off its oppressors, has no need to conceal anything from it, for the nation itself must combat for its preservation and for its honor.
Mexicans! Monterey has fallen. It was not enough to defy death, as our valiant fellow-countrymen did for four days; it was necessary to do more, to defy want in every shape, and the insufficiency of means of resistance. The intention of the enemy to occupy the whole republic is manifest; but the government is determined to triumph or parish with the republic. Partial disasters are of no importance; the Spanish nation suffered much more in the space of six years, and the results of her heroic efforts, and the co-operation of all her sons, was that the bones of a half million unjust invaders whiten the fields of the peninsula. Shall we become unworthy of independence, by not showing ourselves sons worth y of out fathers? The independence was achieved by us alone, only after ten years of constancy; and it is not possible that an organized nation should show less strength than its oppressed sons, such as our first leaders were.
Mexicans! The time to act has come. Will you suffer your population to be decimated, sending it to perish by the handfuls on the frontier, one to-day, another to-morrow, and to perish less by the enemies’ balls then by neglect? The government will exert all its power in the defence of its rights; but it has a right to expect that the indifference or inactive contemplation shall not be the recompense of its plan of operation; for the nation will prefer that that not one stone will be left on another, rather than behold its sovereignty, its right and its temples trampled under foot. The invincible general called by it to place himself at the head of the troops is resolved not to survive the dishonors of the country.
Will it be less so? No. Our blood and our property will be the sacrifice that we offer up; and when you are in the full enjoyment of the rights which you claimed, I do not doubt of your co-operation, and with it we will snatch from fortune a complete victory, which in the end will ensure to us existence and honor.
JOSE MARIANO DE SALAS
Mexico, September 30, 1846.
VISITA MONTERREY TIERRA DE HISTORIA Y TRADICION...Y POR LA HEROICA CIUDAD DE MONTERREY. 11 DE DICIEMBRE 2014.
