Chapter 69 Closing the Net
Tasan Anna was very angry at the behavior of his men who secretly killed the enemy commander because it affected his honor.
Tasan Anna felt that the man should be hanged in the square as a warning to others, but when he learned what had happened, he only fined Jimmy a hundred pesos.
There are more important things to do than these Tasan Anna. In the previous siege, the Mexican army suffered as many as 4,000 casualties, of which 2,300 were killed in action, and another 700 were injured and unable to continue fighting.
Tasan Anna's generals wanted to pursue the victory and use the undefeated northern plains to quickly expand the results and strive to create an established fact before the United States entered the war. As long as the entire territory of Texas was occupied, the Americans would never send troops again. reason.
Gablenz and Stadion felt that the northern plains were undefendable, and the Mexican army had suffered too many losses in previous battles, so they should consolidate their defenses and wait for reinforcements.
On July 2, 1836, Tasan Anna swore to join the Northern Expedition.
On July 15, 1836, Mexican troops arrived at Fort Dallas.
On July 20, 1836, the United States issued a note asking Mexico to stop attacking Fort Dallas.
On July 21, 1836, the U.S. ambassador offered to purchase Texas from Mexico for $450,000.
On July 22, 1836, the U.S. ambassador proposed purchasing the Mexican state of California for $550,000.
On July 23, 1836, Mexican President Tasan Anna formally rejected the U.S. proposal.
On July 24, 1836, the siege of Fort Dallas began.
On July 25, 1836, the United States claimed that a Mexican artillery shell had landed in the United States, resulting in the disappearance of an American soldier. It requested that troops be sent into Mexico to protect foreigners, but the Mexican army refused.
On July 26, 1836, the United States declared war on Mexico.
On August 1, 1836, the leading American troops arrived at Fort Dallas and had a fierce battle with the Mexican army. The Mexican army lost 700 soldiers and was forced to retreat. The first siege of Dallas ended.
On August 15, 1836, four U.S. infantry regiments, two militia regiments, a cavalry brigade, and an artillery regiment, with a total strength of 8,000 troops, attacked Austin.
On August 25, 1836, the American troops suffered excessive casualties and had to retreat.
August 30, 1836, Washington.
Andrew Jackson looked at the financial statements in his hands with a wicked smile on his lips.
"Gentlemen, please remember this great day. We will solve the two major problems that have always plagued the United States, Mr. Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States, and Tasan Anna, President of Mexico."
In 1836, U.S. revenue was expected to reach $61 million, while in 1833 it was only $21 million.
All this is of course thanks to the land craze and the wave of railroad construction. However, the Second Bank of the United States has always been a time bomb for the United States. Only by eliminating this money-printing monster can Andrew Jackson feel at ease.
The United States decided to expand its military by 140,000 troops in response to the ongoing U.S.-Mexico war.
For Mexico, which has only 34,000 troops in total, the U.S.'s expansion of 140,000 troops is indeed a bit like anti-aircraft artillery to swat mosquitoes.
But the Americans had been warned several times by the British, and they also received reliable information that the French were prepared to purchase Texas from the Mexicans.
If we are facing a joint attack by Mexico and France, then the 28,000 people in the United States will not be enough.
In order to ensure victory in the war, Andrew Jackson used the gold-dollar offensive to bribe the forces within Mexico that opposed Tasan Anna.
Andrew Jackson targeted General José Epra, a speculator by trade. He was promised a lot of benefits during the Tasan Anna coup, but they were not fulfilled after Tasan Anna came to power. , instead he was sent to the southern border to retire.
Afterwards, Tasan Anna exiled many people who opposed him to southern Mexico.
These people were already at odds with Tasan Anna, and they were naturally eager to try after receiving the support of the United States.
On September 10, 1836, the French ambassador proposed to purchase Texas from Mexico for 50 million francs, but Mexico rejected it.
On September 25, 1836, a fierce battle broke out between the United States and Mexico on the plains north of Austin. The Mexican army suffered nearly a thousand casualties and had to retreat.
On October 2, 1836, the third Battle of Austin began.
On October 20, 1836, the American troops withdrew.
On October 25, 1836, Mexican General Jose Eplar declared Tasan Anna a traitor and appointed himself interim president of Mexico. The Mexican Civil War broke out.
On October 26, 1836, Mexico announced that it would sell Texas to France for 100 million francs.
On October 30, 1836, France entered the Gulf of Mexico and took over Harrisburg (later Port Houston, the second largest port in Mexico at this time).
On November 1, 1836, Britain announced that the Royal Navy would escort the French army. (Because many plots have been omitted, they will be explained specifically later. In fact, there are also foreshadowings in the past.)
On November 5, 1836, José Epra's rebels severely defeated Vice President Reuvel's government troops in southern Mexico.
On November 10, 1836, José Epra's rebels besieged Mexico City.
On November 12, 1836, French troops took over Austin.
On November 15, 1836, France issued an ultimatum to the United States, demanding that the United States withdraw from all of Texas.
On November 20, 1836, the U.S. military invaded Austin, and the Fourth Battle of Austin began.
On November 22, 1836, the French army annihilated four main regiments of the US Army and captured more than 3,000 people.
On November 25, 1836, President Andrew Jackson signed a presidential decree to fully mobilize.
On December 1, 1836, the U.S. government withdrew $10 million from the Second Bank of the United States to finance the war with France.
On that day, Baron Brooke was about to withdraw his last income of US$2 million from the bank.
As a result, these two payments occurred on the same day, which directly caused the Second Bank of the United States of America to have insufficient liquidity and be unable to make payments. Coupled with the failure on the battlefield, it directly triggered panic among the American people.
The run began, banks went bankrupt, and coins, gold, and silver were robbed. What followed was a collapse in land prices. Within a week, land prices in New York fell by 20% and in Chicago by 50%.
At the same time, European and American agriculture had another bumper harvest, causing crop prices to plummet. The price of U.S. cotton exports dropped by 30% and wheat by 50%.
Andrew Jackson had to issue a presidential decree to stop military expansion, and signed a peace treaty with France, recognizing French rule in Texas.
The Monroe Declaration is like a piece of waste paper, trampled under the feet of the Americans themselves.
While the dollar plummeted, it also detonated the price of the pound. This was naturally due to the frequent trade between Britain and the United States. Of course, Franz's credit for using the dollar to peg the pound was indispensable.
The economic crisis is like a plague, from the United States to the United Kingdom, and then from the United Kingdom to the world.
Instead, the Austrian Empire escaped disaster because it had little trade with Britain and the United States and had long used bond currency.
Vienna, trading center.
Due to the impact of the economic crisis, foreign forces have sold Austrian railway stocks, causing railway stock prices to plummet.
Afterwards, Baron Brooke used the money he brought back from the United States to sweep away all railway company stocks on the market.
December 25, 1836, Christmas.
Austria's railways were all returned to the royal family.
(At this point, Austria’s railways can be considered to have completed the state-owned reform in a sense, and of course, thanks to the financial support of the American railway.)
Because the Christmas girl costume designed by Franz was against religious doctrine, she was put in solitary confinement by Mrs. Sophie. She could only lie down by the window to watch the snow and the moon.
Speeding up in every sense of the word.