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Buena Vista   /bˈunə vˈɪstə/   Listen
Buena Vista

noun
1.
A pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico.






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"Buena vista" Quotes from Famous Books



... When they got out of gin fresh supplies were brought in by slaves from a two-horse wagon outside, which had been captured that day, after a desperate and bloody struggle, by the bandits, on the plains of Buena Vista. ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 3 • Charles Farrar Browne

... to credit to the beneficiary therein named, who is the postmaster at Buena Vista, in the State of Colorado, the sum of $225, being post-office funds forwarded by him to the deposit office at Denver, but which were lost ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland

... Cooking stove manufactory at Blacksburg, S. C. Nail, horse-shoe, and cotton tie factory at Iron Gate, Va. Iron foundry and stove works at Ivanhoe, Va. Wire fence factory at Bedford City, Va. Nail mill and rolling mill with 28 puddling furnaces at Buena Vista, Va. Car works by Boston capitalists at Beaumont, Texas. (Capital, $500,000.) Car works plant at Goshen, Va. Car works plant at Lynchburg, Va. Nail mill at Morristown, Tenn. Machine and iron works at Blacksburg, ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various

... el envio por correo, de cortes (cuttings) de toda la serie y observaran que son telas de muy buena vista (very sightly) y se pueden ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano

... was Barnett; the countersign for the night was Buena Vista. About eleven o'clock I observed a man coming towards me. 'Halt!' I exclaimed; ...
— Continental Monthly - Volume 1 - Issue 3 • Various


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