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DONIPHAN, ALEXANDER W.

\dˈɒnɪfən], \dˈɒnɪfən], \d_ˈɒ_n_ɪ_f_ə_n]\

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1894 - Dictionary of United States history

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(1808-1887), colonel in the Mexican War, accomplished amid many hardships a difficult march from New Mexico to Chihuahua, and near the latter place defeated a Mexican force more than four times as numerous as his own.

1894 - Dictionary of United States history
By John Franklin Jameson

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