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  • He wryly referred to Trist as “a flank battery planted against me,” and added: “Considering the many cruel disappointments and mortifications I have been made to feel … or the total want of support and sympathy, on the part of the War Department, which I have so long experienced, I beg to be recalled from this army.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • As soon as the April 10 cabinet session ended, Polk and Buchanan called Trist over from the State Department for a conversation on his new assignment.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • He wryly referred to Trist as “a flank battery planted against me,” and added: “Considering the many cruel disappointments and mortifications I have been made to feel … or the total want of support and sympathy, on the part of the War Department, which I have so long experienced, I beg to be recalled from this army.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • As soon as the April 10 cabinet session ended, Polk and Buchanan called Trist over from the State Department for a conversation on his new assignment.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • We're going to take you to a blogging event at a place called Trist, a bar in Washington, D.C. A number of bloggers, liberal and conservative, have joined together.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2006 2006

  • Polk resisted this pressure, but he recalled Trist just before the beginning of the final negotiations with Mexico.

    Expansion and Conflict William E. Dodd

  • For several weeks U.S. diplomat Nicholas Trist sought a Mexican counterpart with authority to negotiate an official end to the war.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • As the fighting tapered off south of the city, Scott and Santa Anna arranged for a cease-fire on August 24; Scott was hopeful that this cessation would lead to the negotiations he and Nicholas Trist had sought since the spring.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Americans took steps to counteract the guerrillas, especially after diplomatic negotiations got under way between Trist and Mexican officials in December.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Nicolas Trist, a U.S. State Department diplomat, had traveled with the army since it took Jalapa.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

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