4/2/2023 0 Comments Castle on the coast of mexico![]() ![]() The other three - Campeachy, Sisal, and San Juan Bantista de Tobasco - are southward of those just mentioned, and are of inferior importance. These are Vera Cruz, Tampico and Matamoras. There are but six Mexican ports of foreign entry on the Gulf, and it has been unofficially announced that the three main ones will be first and at once seized by the Allies. The Gulf "fortresses and military positions" necessary for the Allies to seize are not very numerous and as we now learn from Mexico that no serious resistance will be made to the invaders at any of these ports, the work of the Allies, so far as that part of it is concerned, will doubtless be easy enough. It is irregular, and deeply indented by numerous bays and inlets and there are also long, narrow sand-bars and sea-islands scattered along, as is the case on the sea-coast of our Southern States. ![]() ![]() The Mexican coast bordering on the Gulf, (including that small section on the Caribbean Sea,) has a stretch altogether of sixteen hundred miles. On that side is the bulk of the population, the principal cities and the great commercial ports and to command the cities and commerce of the Gulf is, in the opinion of the Allies, to command the whole of Mexico. There have been fought all the foreign wars of Mexico. From the text of the Convention entered into between the three Powers concerning Mexico, we learn that it is the design of the Allies "to seize and occupy the several fortresses and military positions on the Mexican coast " and for that purpose it is ordered that "the combined forces shall be assembled in the neighborhood of Vera Cruz." It is thus the eastern or Gulf shore of Mexico only on which the Allies design to operate. ![]()
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