Mexican War, 1846-1848

Name: Mexican War, 1846-1848
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ISBN: 9780803261075

ISBN-10: 0803261071

ISBN-13: 9780803261075

Edition: 1992

Authors: K. Jack Bauer, Robert W. Johannsen, K. Bauer

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"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…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 486
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Maps


Standard Abbreviations Used in Notes


Introduction to the Bison Book Edition


Errata


Preface



Imperial America



The Failure of Graduated Pressure



Taylor in Texas



The Roar of Guns Along the Rio Grande



The Declaration of War



The Monterrey Campaign



The Naval War in the Gulf of Mexico, 1846



The Army of the West



The Chihuahua Expeditions



California Conquest



California Lost and Regained



The War in the North after Monterrey



The Veracruz Expedition



Into the Valley of Mexico



On to Mexico City



The Fall of Mexico City



Mexico Occupied



Politics and Mr. Polk's War



Peace at Last


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index