Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Stevens te kaihauturu o te Corps of Engineers i te Pakanga o Mexico-American, i kite i te mahi i te whakapae o Vera Cruz me Cerro Gordo, Contreras, me
Ko Churubusco. I roto i te whawhai whakamutunga, i aro atu ia ki ona rangatira, nana nei i whakawhiwhia ki a ia te rangatira rangatira. I whakahuatia ano ia mo te toa i te Pakanga o Chapultepec, i tenei wa ki te taumata o te rangatira. I uru a Stevens ki te whawhai i Molino del Rey, me te Pakanga mo Mexico City, i whara kino ai ia. I muri mai ka tuhia e ia he pukapuka mo ana haerenga, "Campaigns of the Rio Grande and Mexico, with Notices of the Recent Work of Major Ripley" (New York, 1851).