Definition of Buena Vista

1. Noun. 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.

Generic synonyms: Pitched Battle
Group relationships: Mexican War
Geographical relationships: Mexico, United Mexican States

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buena Vista

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Buddhists
Buddy Holly
Buddyroll
Buddyrolls
Bude burner
Bude burners
Bude light
Bude lights
Budge
Budge's centre
Budin's obstetrical joint
Budorcas
Budorcas taxicolor
Bueller
Buena Vista (current term)
Buenos Aires
Buerger's disease
Buffalo
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill Cody
Buffalo Indian
Buffalonian
Buffalonians
Bufferin
Buffy
Buffyverse
Bufo americanus
Bufo boreas

Literary usage of Buena Vista

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"At dawn of day, accordingly, Ampudia, who had been reinforced during the night, began the attack on the mountain THE BATTLE OF Buena Vista. ..."

2. The War with Mexico by Justin Harvey Smith (1919)
"XX Buena Vista February, 1847 EARLY the next morning (February 22) Santa Anna, ... Minon, he thought, was already between Buena Vista and Saltillo, ..."

3. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1998)
"POLITICAL INTRIGUE - Buena Vista - MOVEMENT AGAINST VERA CRUZ- SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZ. T HE Mexican war was a political war, and the administration ..."

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