From: laro@idworld.net   
      
   "Von Fourche"  wrote in message   
   news:aoAfc.11728$k05.6013@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...   
      
   > > Just a guess on my part:  the ratio (numbers) you got was not accurate.   
   > > I would like to know your source, if you can recall it.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > The book - From Sea to Shining Sea : From the War of 1812 to the Mexican   
   > War; The Saga of America's Expansion by Robert Leckie.  It's a general   
   > history of Americas expansion west.  It's been about five or six years   
   since   
   > I read it, but I remember reading that one of the main problems with the   
   > Mexican Army was that it was top heavy with too many officers and not   
   enough   
   > privates/grunts. I can't remember the exact ratio.   
   >   
      
      
   Very strange indeed!  The Leckie is/was one of a partnership, he and his   
   wife.  They were archeologists, as I recall, not historians of the Mexican   
   West!   
      
   (uh oh, i was wrong.  I checked the BN.com website and see that I have a   
   couple of their books and they are NOT the archeologist married couple I   
   remember...   
      
   Okay, bottom like is that I do not have that book.   
      
   I'll have to put this item on the table and check when I get near a library   
   which has the book.   
      
   Thanks for the reply.   
      
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