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Author
Series
Southwest historical volume 7
Publisher
The Arthur H. Clark company
Pub. Date
1938.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping history of the 1840s that captures America's enormous sense of possibility and shows how the extraordinary expansion of territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep rift that would bring war just a decade later.
86) Zachary Taylor
Author
Series
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A profile of the twelfth president traces his rise in the military and successes in the Mexican war to his election as the first president without a prior political office, in an account that also offers insight into Taylor's views on slavery and his sudden death.
Author
Series
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history volume no. 148
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Series
Battalion of St. Patrick volume 2
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
""To the Color" is the continuing true story of John Riley: young (28), cynical, charming, a professional Irish soldier who deserts the U.S. army to fight for Mexico at first for money, then for something loftier in the Mexican War of 1846-48. With gritty action, humor, pathos, and romance, it not only brings to life his torturous journey of reformation but that of the rough-hewn Irish and German fellow deserters who follow him in pursuit of a shared...
Author
Series
War and the Southwest volume no. 6
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English