Author: Henry Washington BenhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buena Vista, Battle of, Mexico, 1847
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Recollections of Mexico and the Battle of Buena Vista
Author: Henry Washington BenhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buena Vista, Battle of, Mexico, 1847
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Recollections of Mexico and the Battle of Buena Vista
Author: Henry Washington BenhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buena Vista, Battle of, Mexico, 1847
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Recollections of Mexico and the Battle of Buena Vista: Feb. 22 and 23, 1847
Author: Benham Henry WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781018284101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America Edited by Justin Winsor
Author: The Mexican War, 1846-1848
Author: Karl Jack BauerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
"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).
Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large
Author: Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of America, 1775-1782: their political struggles and relations with Europe
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America,
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of North America
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Courage Above All Things
Author: Harwood P. HintonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080616798X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784–1869) was one of America’s most illustrious figures—most notably as an officer in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he assumed command of the Department of the East, Wool had been a brigadier general for twenty years and, at age seventy-seven, was the oldest general on either side of the conflict. Courage Above All Things marks the first full biography of Wool, who aside from his unparalleled military service, figured prominently in many critical moments in nineteenth-century U.S. history. At the time of his death in 2016, Harwood Hinton, a scholar with an encyclopedic knowledge of western history, had devoted fifty years to this monumental work, which has been completed and edited by the distinguished historian Jerry Thompson. This deeply researched and deftly written volume incorporates the latest scholarship to offer a clear and detailed account of John Ellis Wool’s extraordinary life—his character, his life experiences, and his career, in wartime and during uneasy periods of relative peace. Hinton and Thompson provide a thorough account of all chapters in Wool’s life, including three major wars, the Cherokee Removal, and battles with Native Americans on the West Coast. From his distinguished participation in the War of 1812 to his controversial service on the Pacific coast during the 1850s, and from his mixed success during the Peninsula Campaign to his overseeing of efforts to quell the New York City draft riots of 1863, John Ellis Wool emerges here as a crucial character in the story of nineteenth-century America—complex, contradictory, larger than life—finally fully realized for the first time.