Download or read book Guns Along the Rio Grande Palo Alto and Resaca de La Palma written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of the Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guns Along the Rio Grande: Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma is an engaging account of the period of distrust and misunderstanding that preceded the opening of hostilities between the United States and Mexico. In his highly readable essay, Stephen A. Carney traces the tensions that proved to be the catalyst for the opening battles at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma on 8 and 9 May 1846, covering the strategic setting and each operation in detail. Army of Occupation commander Brig. Gen. Zachary Taylor ultimately won decisive tactical victories against a numerically superior enemy, highlighting the value of United States Military Academy graduates commanding the regulars and validating the existence of both the professional army and the academy at West Point. In a wider historical perspective, these battles represent early instances in which the U.S. Army enjoyed technological superiority over a conventional foe, the battle at Palo Alto proving that American artillery was one of the most advanced in the world and that it could dominate an open battlefield. The result, according to Carney, was victory with marked savings in American lives. This circumstance, little noted at the time, was in fact the first harbinger of what would become a dominant theme in American military experience during the second half of the twentieth century. Junior officers learned the trade of war in the battles at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and soldiers today will readily identify with their experiences in projecting force and conducting operations in hostile territory.
Download or read book Guns Along the Rio Grande written by Stephen A. Carney and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Mexican War. At head of title on cover: The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Mexican War. One of a series of eight brochures about the Mexican War. Discusses Brig. General Zachary Taylor's campaigns for Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
Download or read book Guns Along the Rio Grande written by Stephen A. Carney and published by . This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican War (1846-1848) was the U.S. Army's first experience waging an extended conflict in a foreign land. This brief war, often overlooked because it occurred so close to the American Civil War, was instrumental in shaping the geographical boundaries of the U.S. This newly acquired land also became a battleground over slavery. In addition, the Mexican War was a proving ground for a generation of U.S. Army leaders, who as junior officers in Mexico, learned the trade of war & later applied those lessons to the Civil War. This document, in the series The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Mexican WarÓ, provides a general discussion of the War & focuses on the Battle of Palo Alto, which began on 8 May 1846. Color illustrations & maps.
Download or read book Guns Along the Rio Grande written by Stephen A. Carney and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Army on the Rio Grande written by Thomas Bangs Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Army on the Rio Grande with Descriptions of the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma the Bombardment of Fort Brown and the Ceremonies of the Surrender of Matamoros Etc written by Thomas Bangs THORPE and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Thunder of Cannon written by Charles M. Haecker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Armies on the Rio Grande written by Douglas A. Murphy and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Clotilde P. Garcia Tejano Book Prize The opening campaign of the US-Mexican War transformed the map of each nation and shaped the course of conflict. Armed with a broad range of Mexican military documents and previously unknown US sources, Douglas Murphy provides the first balanced view of early battles such as Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He reassesses previously covered territory and also poses new questions. Why did Mexico establish its defenses south of the Rio Grande while claiming territory north of the river? What was Mexico’s strategy in the campaign against the United States? What factors most affected Mexico’s defeat? In confronting these questions, Murphy shows that the campaign was a complex chess match with undercurrents of political intrigue, economic motivations, and personal animosities as much as military action. Two Armies on the Rio Grande will transform our understanding of the US-Mexican War.
Download or read book Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site written by Jerry D. Thompson and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Memoirs of the Civil War Leaders written by Raphael Semmes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 6357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you the collection of Civil War memoires, diaries and journals. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the key personalities of the Civil War including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, William Sherman, Jefferson Davis, Raphael Semmes and many more. Contents: History of Civil War, 1861-1865 Leaders & Commanders of the Union Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant Charles Anderson Dana William Tecumseh Sherman Philip Henry Sheridan John Beatty John Alexander Logan Thomas Wentworth Higginson Lemuel Abijah Abbott Leaders & Commanders of the Confederation Jefferson Davis – A Short History of the Confederate States of America James Longstreet Raphael Semmes Gilbert Moxley Sorrel Richard "Dick" Taylor Isaac Hermann John Singleton Mosby Heros Von Borcke
Download or read book The Memoirs of the Civil War Commanders written by Raphael Semmes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 6357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents the collection of Civil War memoires, diaries and journals. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the key personalities of the Civil War including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, William Sherman, Jefferson Davis, Raphael Semmes and many more. Contents: History of Civil War, 1861-1865 Leaders & Commanders of the Union Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant Charles Anderson Dana William Tecumseh Sherman Philip Henry Sheridan John Beatty John Alexander Logan Thomas Wentworth Higginson Lemuel Abijah Abbott Leaders & Commanders of the Confederation Jefferson Davis – A Short History of the Confederate States of America James Longstreet Raphael Semmes Gilbert Moxley Sorrel Richard "Dick" Taylor Isaac Hermann John Singleton Mosby Heros Von Borcke
Download or read book The Mexican War 1846 1848 written by Karl Jack Bauer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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).
Download or read book A History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War 1841 1850 written by John Bach McMaster and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Mexican American War 3 volumes written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 1159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly encyclopedia comprises a wide array of accessible yet detailed entries that address the military, social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of the Mexican-American War. The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War: A Political, Social, and Military History provides an in-depth examination of not only the military conflict itself, but also the impact of the war on both nations; and how this conflict was the first waged by Americans on foreign soil and served to establish critical U.S. military, political, and foreign policy precedents. The entries analyze the Mexican-American War from both the American and Mexican perspectives, in equal measure. In addition to discussing the various campaigns, battles, weapons systems, and other aspects of military history, the three-volume work also contextualizes the conflict within its social, cultural, political, and economic milieu, and places the Mexican-American War into its proper historical and historiographical contexts by covering the eras both before and after the war. This information is particularly critical for students of American history because the conflict fomented sectional conflict in the United States, which resulted in the U.S. Civil War.
Download or read book Operation Rio Grande written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
