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The Breckenridge News
Hardinsburg, Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky
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Report on straight-line distances along the Mexican border from Brownsville to Yuma and from El Paso to Mexico City via key points, highlighting challenges for army patrols and potential invasion routes.
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Some Idea of what it means to patrol the Mexican border and the distances that must be covered in an invasion of Mexico is gained in the accompanying table. Of course an army traveling along the easiest routes would in some instances cover about twice as many miles as the distances given below.
From the eastern to the western end of the Mexican border the straight line distances are:
Miles.
From Brownsville to Laredo.... 225
From Laredo to Del Rio. 150
From Del Rio to El Paso..
From El Paso to Bisbee...
From Bisbee to Yuma. 300
Starting from El Paso the invading Americans would cover the following distances to Mexico City:
Miles.
El Paso to Chihuahua (by rail).. 472
Chihuahua to Torreon (by rail). 796
Torreon to Zacatecas (straight line)
, ecat to Mexico City (straight line)...................
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Table of straight-line distances along Mexican border: Brownsville to Laredo 225 miles, Laredo to Del Rio 150 miles, Del Rio to El Paso (incomplete), El Paso to Bisbee (incomplete), Bisbee to Yuma 300 miles. From El Paso to Mexico City: El Paso to Chihuahua 472 miles by rail, Chihuahua to Torreon 796 miles by rail, Torreon to Zacatecas (straight line, incomplete), to Mexico City (straight line, garbled). Notes army would cover twice as many miles on easiest routes for patrols and invasion.