LETTERS OF ZACHARY TAYLOR FROM
LETTERS OF ZACHARY TAYLOR FROM

Author: Zachary 1784-1850 Taylor

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781374114074

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Letters of Zachary Taylor, from the Battle-Fields of the Mexican War; - Scholar's Choice Edition
Letters of Zachary Taylor, from the Battle-Fields of the Mexican War; - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: William Holland Samson

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-13

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781295993673

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Letters of Zachary Taylor From the Battle-Fields of the Mexican War (Classic Reprint)
Letters of Zachary Taylor From the Battle-Fields of the Mexican War (Classic Reprint)

Author: Zachary Taylor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781333762445

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Excerpt from Letters of Zachary Taylor From the Battle-Fields of the Mexican War The readers of this privately printed volume may be interested in a sketch of General Taylor's family and of his descendants, particularly as nothing accurate and comprehensive has hitherto been printed indeed, a sketch may be regarded as necessary to a correct understanding of the many interesting allusions in these Letters to the members of his family, to whom he was passionately devoted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor

Author: K. Jack Bauer

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1993-08-01

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780807118511

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Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor “was and remains an enigma.” He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes, an aristocrat with a strong feeling for the common man, an energetic yet cautious and conservative soldier. Not an intellectual, Taylor showed little curiosity about the world around him. In this biography—the most comprehensive since Holman Hamilton’s two-volume work published forty years ago—Bauer offers a fresh appraisal of Taylor’s life and suggests that Taylor may have been neither so simple nor so nonpolitical as many historians have believed. Taylor’s sixteen months as president were marked by disputes over California statehood and the Texas–New Mexico boundary. Taylor vehemently opposed slavery extension and threatened to hang those southern hotheads who favored violence and secession as a means to protect their interests. He died just as he had begun a reorganization of his administration and a recasting of the Whig party. Balanced and judicious, forthright and unreverential, and based on thoroughgoing research, this book will be for many years the standard biography of Zachary Taylor.

Letters of Zachary Taylor, from the Battle-Fields of the Mexican War; - War College Series
Letters of Zachary Taylor, from the Battle-Fields of the Mexican War; - War College Series

Author: William Holland Samson

Publisher: War College Series

Published: 2015-02-13

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781293994467

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This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

Monterrey Is Ours!
Monterrey Is Ours!

Author: Robert H. Ferrell

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0813161363

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"Here we are on the banks of the Nueces in the grand camp of the army of occupation." So wrote Lt. Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana when in 1845, not many months before the outbreak of the Mexican War, he joined the white-tented encampment of General Zachary Taylor in Texas. And so he continued writing during the uncertain life of camp and campaign for the better part of the next two years. In these letters to his wife, published here for the first time, Dana provides a detailed, firsthand view of the United States' war with Mexico—fighting off the Mexicans from within Fort Brown during the initial attack; hearing the distant thunder of artillery as Taylor's army marched to the rescue of the beleaguered Seventh Infantry; occupying Matamoros; taking Monterrey, street by street with the defenders firing from the housetops. After Monterrey, Dana was at the siege of Veracruz and on the march to Cerro Gordo. Badly wounded in the attack on Telegraph Hill at Cerro Gordo, he was left on the field for dead, but was rescued by a burial party a day and a half later. Following the Mexican War, Dana went on to become a major general during the Civil War and later to have an illustrious career as a railroad executive. Nearly one hundred of his letters about the Mexican War survived and are now in the archives at West Point. From them Robert Ferrell has edited this vivid, eyewitness narrative.

The Mexican War, 1846-1848
The Mexican War, 1846-1848

Author: Karl Jack Bauer

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9780803261075

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"Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. . . . Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).