Buena Vista, a village of Mexico, 7 miles S. of Saltillo, where, on February 22-23, 1847, some 5000 United States troops under Taylor defeated 20,000 Mexicans under Santa Anna.
Buena Vista
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 523
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