Author: Zachary Taylor
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ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Includes a brief chronology of the life of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, their annual messages, and a selection of important documents from their administrations.
Zachary Taylor (1784-1850).
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Carl Gehrman presents an outline of the life and presidency of U.S. President Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). The outline highlights Taylor's education, occupations, election issues, and political opponents, as well as the major events of the administration. Taylor died while in office.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Carl Gehrman presents an outline of the life and presidency of U.S. President Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). The outline highlights Taylor's education, occupations, election issues, and political opponents, as well as the major events of the administration. Taylor died while in office.
Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874
Author: Zachary Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Includes a brief chronology of the life of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, their annual messages, and a selection of important documents from their administrations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Includes a brief chronology of the life of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, their annual messages, and a selection of important documents from their administrations.
Zachary Taylor
Author: John S. D. Eisenhower
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429997419
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California's admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429997419
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California's admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.
Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 (And) Millard Fillmore 1800-1874; Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. Edited by John J. Farrell
Author: John J. Farrell (Comp)
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Category : Fillmore, Millard
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Fillmore, Millard
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Zachary Taylor, 1784-1850
Author: John J. Farrell
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Category : Taylor, Zachary [sachl. OW.]
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
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Category : Taylor, Zachary [sachl. OW.]
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
President Zachary Taylor
Author: Elbert B. Smith
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600216022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War before achieving fame while leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. Taylor's short Presidency was shadowed by the issue then dominating all aspects of American national affairs - that of slavery. However, the immediate issue was the admission of New Mexico and California as states. Taylor confounded his Southern supporters, who had assumed that since the President owned slaves, he would support the pro-slavery position and refuse entry into the union to two states settled by Northerners and likely to be anti-slavery. Taylor recommended that the two territories develop their own constitutions and then request admission based on those constitutions. When Southern states threatened secession he warned them that he would use all his resources as commander-in- chief to preserve the union. He stated that if they seceded he would track them down like he had the Mexicans, and handle them in the same manner that he had deserters. Taylor's brief term in the White House also featured the still on-going question of balancing power between the Congress and the presidency.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600216022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War before achieving fame while leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. Taylor's short Presidency was shadowed by the issue then dominating all aspects of American national affairs - that of slavery. However, the immediate issue was the admission of New Mexico and California as states. Taylor confounded his Southern supporters, who had assumed that since the President owned slaves, he would support the pro-slavery position and refuse entry into the union to two states settled by Northerners and likely to be anti-slavery. Taylor recommended that the two territories develop their own constitutions and then request admission based on those constitutions. When Southern states threatened secession he warned them that he would use all his resources as commander-in- chief to preserve the union. He stated that if they seceded he would track them down like he had the Mexicans, and handle them in the same manner that he had deserters. Taylor's brief term in the White House also featured the still on-going question of balancing power between the Congress and the presidency.
Zachary Taylor
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Presents biographical information on the 12th President of the United States, Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). Discusses his ancestry and early life, his early military career, his involvement in the Mexican War, and his Presidency. Includes a bibliography of material on Taylor.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Presents biographical information on the 12th President of the United States, Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). Discusses his ancestry and early life, his early military career, his involvement in the Mexican War, and his Presidency. Includes a bibliography of material on Taylor.
Taylor, Zachary, Letter
Author: Zachary Taylor
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Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Future President of the United States Zachary Taylor sent this letter to the overseer of his plantation while leading the American forces during the Mexican war in ca. 1847. In the letter, Taylor sets out instructions for the management of his plantation and touches on his plans for the ongoing war effort.
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Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Future President of the United States Zachary Taylor sent this letter to the overseer of his plantation while leading the American forces during the Mexican war in ca. 1847. In the letter, Taylor sets out instructions for the management of his plantation and touches on his plans for the ongoing war effort.
Zachary Taylor, 1784-1850: Millard Fillmore, 1800-1874
Author: United States. President
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Author: Felice Flanery Lewis
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817316787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his “Army of Occupation” who became Confederate or Union generals in the Civil War. It clarifies what being a Mexican War veteran meant in their cases, how they interacted with one another, how they performed their various duties, and how they reacted under fire. Referring to developments in Washington, D.C., and other theaters of the war, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the early years of the conflict based on army records and the letters and diaries of the participants. Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817316787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his “Army of Occupation” who became Confederate or Union generals in the Civil War. It clarifies what being a Mexican War veteran meant in their cases, how they interacted with one another, how they performed their various duties, and how they reacted under fire. Referring to developments in Washington, D.C., and other theaters of the war, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the early years of the conflict based on army records and the letters and diaries of the participants. Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.