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The reputation of Don Carlos Bustamante, deputy from Oajaca, is altogether literary.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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Zouaves after the siege of Oajaca, he had exercised, during the rest of the expedition, command over a mounted company, whose duty was to maintain communications between the various columns, continuing, at the same time, their operations in the Michoacan.
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He is a native of Oajaca, one of the Pacific States, and the same that contained the vast estates bestowed upon Cortés, to whom the Valley of Oajaca furnished his title of Marquis.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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This is the cochineal insect, but only the wild variety; the fine kind, which is used for dye, and conies from the province of Oajaca, miles off, is covered only with a mealy powder.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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Montebello, a Sicilian nobleman, who inherits the titles and also the vast estates of Cortéz in the valleys of the Cuarnavaca and Oajaca, upon which none of the revolutionary governments have laid violent hands.
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Such hard copper axes as these have been found at Mitla, in the State of Oajaca, where the ruined temples seem to form a connecting link between the monuments of
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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The victories of Oajaca, Queretaro, and Colima, won by the Conservatives, have wrought no apparent change in the Presidential mind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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He made his first stand at the Castle of Perote; but finding this too isolated a position, he marched to Oajaca, in the extreme southwest of the Republic, and took up his quarters in the Dominican convent of that city.
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The latter had been successively Bishop of Oajaca in Mexico, and of Guatemala.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Oajaca and Guerrero, in the south, still held out, under General
Maximilian in Mexico Sara Yorke Stevenson 1884
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