Download or read book Zachary Taylor written by John S. D. Eisenhower and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book A Life of Gen Zachary Taylor comprising a narrative of events connected with his professional career derived from public documents and privat correspondence by J R Fry and authentic incidents of his early years from materials collected by Robert T Conrad With an original and accurate portrait and eleven elegant illustrations designed by F O C Darley written by Joseph Reese FRY and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor Twelfth President of the United States written by Henry Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor written by Henry Montgomery and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1847 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor is a great biography of America's 12th president. Montgomery's biography includes a short history of the Taylor family, and focuses on his military career rather than time as president. A table of contents is included.
Download or read book A Life of Gen Zachary Taylor written by Joseph Reese Fry and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Zachary Taylor written by K. Jack Bauer and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor Twelfth President of the United States by H Montgomery written by Henry Montgomery and published by Scholarly Pub Office Univ of. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor Twelfth President of the United States written by Henry Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Old Rough and Ready Young Folks Life of Gen Zachary Taylor written by John 1800-1859 Frost and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biographical account of the life of Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States. Written for young readers, it details his early military career, his victories in the Mexican-American War, and his presidency. It also sheds light on his personality and character, revealing the determination and courage that he was famous for. This captivating and informative work provides a glimpse into the life of one of America's most beloved presidents. 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 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. 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.
Download or read book The Life of Gen Zachary Taylor Classic Reprint written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Gen. Zachary Taylor The American branch of the family from which he sprang originated with James Taylor, who emigrated to this country from England in the year 1692, and settled in the eastern part of Virginia. It is a singular fact that the eldest sons in a lineal descent have uniformly borne the name of James from this ancestor to the present day. General James Taylor, of Newport, Kentucky, who was Quartermaster General in the army at the time of Hull's surrender, and now eighty years of age, is the oldest living of this direct line of eldest sons, not one of whom has died before the father; and his oldest son being named James, who has also a son of the same name, all in good health, the prospect is still fair for the perpetuation of this peculiarity in the descent of the family name. The collateral branches, springing of course from the younger sons and daughters, have extended to many parts of Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky, and in fact all over the Southern States, even into Texas. Many of our most distinguished men have sprung from this family; among others, James Madison, John Taylor of Carolina, author of several well known political works, Judge Pendleton of Virginia, and Gen. Memucan Hunt. Gen. James Taylor of Newport, who as before stated is now living, and Hubbard and Richard Taylor, younger brothers, emigrated to Kentucky soon after its admission to the Union in 1702. Col. Richard Taylor, the youngest of these brothers, and the father of Zachary, settled near Louisville, and was distinguished for his bravery and military talents. Many instances are preserved in the traditions of that State of his desperate encounters with the savages, and Governor Scott, who was sometimes a little profane, is reported to have said that "if he had to storm the gates of Hell, he should want Dick Taylor to lead the column " He was not only noted for his courage, but was a man of some eminence in the political world, having been a presidential elector in Kentucky for many years, voting for Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Clay. He died near Lexington, on the 19th Feb., 1826. The mother of Gen. Taylor was a woman of lofty spirits and educated mind, and distinguished for her many virtues. At the age of six years Zachary was placed under a private tutor, Mr. Elisha Ayres, who is still living at Preston, Connecticut, and says that he remembers his distinguished pupil as being a very active and sensible boy. But little is known of the General's youth, but all accounts agree in describing it as one of rare promise for a military man. He showed a predilection for the exercises and accomplishments of the soldier, and as an instance of his bravery and hardihood it is related that when about seventeen years of age he swam from the Kentucky shore across the Ohio river to the Indiana side and back again without resting, in company with an elder brother, long since dead. The feat was performed in the month of March, when the river was swollen and chill, and far surpasses the famous one of swimming the Hellespont, which is about a mile across, and of delightful temperature. Soon after the affair of the Chesapeake and the Leopard, the excitement against Great Britain had risen to the highest pitch, and everything portending a war with the most powerful kingdom of Europe, in 1808, young Taylor applied for a commission in the Army, and through the influence of his father obtained a Lieutenantcy in the seventh Regiment of Infantry of the United States Army. Before the war broke out in 1812 he had risen to the rank of Captain, and being ordered for service in the western country, he was engaged in repelling the border warfare of the Indians, which immediately succeeded the fall of Detroit and the surrender of Gen. Hull's Army. Captain Taylor was intrusted with the command of Fort Harrison, on the Wabash, having a garrison of about fifty men,
