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Doniphan's Expedition

Author : John Taylor Hughes
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967959
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Doniphan's Expedition written by John Taylor Hughes and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teacher turned soldier, John T. Hughes like so many other volunteers saw in the outbreak of the Mexican War the possibility for adventure and glory. He joined the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers and announced that he planned to write a history of his fighting unit commanded by Col. Alexander Doniphan, who would come to be regarded as among the finest volunteer officers of the war. The result of Hughes's efforts certainly is one of the most colorful personal accounts of the Mexican War ever written. Doniphan's Expedition follows the regiment on its grueling 850-mile march from Fort Leavenworth, present-day Kansas, along the Santa Fe Trail, to invade Mexico. Along the way, Hughes observes and describes in impressive detail the discipline, morale, and effectiveness of the civilian soldiers encountering hardships on the rough plains and deserts. He gives their impressions of Santa Fe and offers valuable insight into the military occupation of that city. As significant cultural history, this account also chronicles the fears and prejudices of the soldiers meeting a seemingly strange people in a strange land. Furthermore, Hughes provides an excellent first-hand account of the two battles of the expedition: the Battle of Brazito and the Battle of Sacramento. First published in 1847, Doniphan's Expedition is now once again made available, with a new foreword by Joseph G. Dawson III, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Mexican War. General readers will find this book to be an enthralling examination of another time and place in U.S. and Mexican military and cultural history. Historians will rediscover a significant contribution to Mexican War literature.

Doniphan's Expedition

Author : John Taylor Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Doniphan's Expedition written by John Taylor Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier's personal account of the Mexican War of 1846-48, experienced as a member of the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers, commanded by Col. Alexander Doniphan. Howes calls the 1848 edition the "best ed[ition]" of one of the classic, primary works on the campaign of the first Missouri Cavalry in New Mexico and Chihuahua. "The narrative is a valuable adjunct to the literature of overland travel, Doniphan's march being one of the most famous in history and the author an actual participant. The chapters on the march to California of Kearny's Army of the West, the battles en route and there, and of affairs on the West Coast during the Revolution, contain one of the earliest accounts of these world-shaking events to appear in print" -Eberstadt.

Doniphan's Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California

Author : John Taylor Hughes
Publisher : Topeka, Kan., The author
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doniphan's Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California written by John Taylor Hughes and published by Topeka, Kan., The author. This book was released on 1907 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier's personal account of the Mexican War of 1846-48, experienced as a member of the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers, commanded by Col. Alexander Doniphan.

Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico

Author : A. Willizenus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico written by A. Willizenus and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alexander William Doniphan

Author : Roger D. Launius
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826211323
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Alexander William Doniphan written by Roger D. Launius and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to Doniphan's prominence as a Missouri attorney, military leader, politician, and businessman from the 1830s to the 1880s lay in his persistent moderation on the critical issues of his day. The author describes Doniphan's success as a brigadier general of the Missouri State Militia in the war with Mexico in 1846, his influence as a Missouri Whig, and his choice not to fight in the Civil War. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Borderlander

Author : Ralph Adam Smith
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806130415
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Borderlander written by Ralph Adam Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the 1920s, American historians have presented Kirker only in the worst of terms. Smith, however, demonstrates that Kirker's white contemporaries judged him a hero. At a time when evolving politics led to new methods of warfare - when desperate people resorted to desperate measures - his deeds earned him a reputation for bravery and good citizenship."--BOOK JACKET. "Whether Kirker is judged a villain or a hero, or merely a scoundrel, his colorful life reflected the turbulence of his times."--Jacket.

The Mormon Battalion

Author : Brigham Henry Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Mormon Battalion written by Brigham Henry Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doniphan

Author : Jacob S. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258360306
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis A Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doniphan by : Jacob S. Robinson

Download or read book A Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doniphan written by Jacob S. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives Of The Trans-Mississippi Frontier.

The United States

Author : Edwin Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The United States written by Edwin Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States

Author : Edwin Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States written by Edwin Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eagles and Empire

Author : David A. Clary
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553906763
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Eagles and Empire written by David A. Clary and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war that started under questionable pretexts. A president who is convinced of his country’s might and right. A military and political stalemate with United States troops occupying a foreign land against a stubborn and deadly insurgency. The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the war is one of the least known and most important in both Mexican and United States history—a war that really began much earlier and whose consequences still echo today. Acclaimed historian David A. Clary presents this epic struggle for a continent for the first time from both sides, using original Mexican and North American sources. To Mexico, the yanqui illegals pouring into her territories of Texas and California threatened Mexican sovereignty and security. To North Americans, they manifested their destiny to rule the continent. Two nations, each raising an eagle as her standard, blustered and blundered into a war because no one on either side was brave enough to resist the march into it. In Eagles and Empire, Clary draws vivid portraits of the period’s most fascinating characters, from the cold-eyed, stubborn United States president James K. Polk to Mexico’s flamboyant and corrupt general-president-dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna; from the legendary and ruthless explorer John Charles Frémont and his guide Kit Carson to the “Angel of Monterey” and the “Boy Heroes” of Chapultepec; from future presidents such as Benito Juárez and Zachary Taylor to soldiers who became famous in both the Mexican and North American civil wars that soon followed. Here also are the Irish Soldiers of Mexico and the Yankee sailors of two squadrons, hero-bandits and fighting Indians of both nations, guerrilleros and Texas Rangers, and some amazing women soldiers. From the fall of the Alamo and harrowing marches of thousands of miles in the wilderness to the bloody, dramatic conquest of Mexico City and the insurgency that continued to resist, this is a riveting narrative history that weaves together events on the front lines—where Indian raids, guerrilla attacks, and atrocities were matched by stunning acts of heroism and sacrifice—with battles on two home fronts—political backstabbing, civil uprisings, and battle lines between Union and Confederacy and Mexican Federalists and Centralists already being drawn. The definitive account of a defining war, Eagles and Empire is page-turning history—a book not to be missed.

Shavetails and Bell Sharps

Author : Emmett M. Essin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803267404
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Shavetails and Bell Sharps written by Emmett M. Essin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-03-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last U.S. Army mules were formally mustered out of the service in December 1956, ending 125 years of military reliance on the virtues of this singular animal. Much less glamorous than the cavalryman?s horse, the Army pack mule was a good deal more important: from the Mexican War through World War II, mules were an indispensable adjunct to army movement. ø The author has exhaustively researched the ubiquitous yet nearly invisible army mule. Through his work we learn a great deal about military procurement, transport, and supply, the bedrock on which military mobility rests.

Washington Historical Quarterly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Washington Historical Quarterly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Turmoil In New Mexico, 1846-1868

Author : William A. Keleher
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611391563
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Turmoil In New Mexico, 1846-1868 written by William A. Keleher and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vital history of New Mexico and Arizona during the formative years between the American Occupation and the coming of the railroad has been compressed by the author into one volume with hundreds of footnotes and many profiles that make this book of vital importance to teachers, students, and researchers. The book is broken into four parts: “General Kearny Comes to Santa Fe,” “The Confederates Invade New Mexico,” “Carleton’s California Column,” and “The Long Walk.” Many famous men walk and talk through these pages, including Kearny, Doniphan, Baylor, Canby, Carleton, Sibley, and a host of others. In addition, the story of the impact of the Civil War in New Mexico on the Indians, and the tragic results, is told here in detail for the first time. Long out of print, the book is available once again with a new foreword by Marc Simmons and preface by Michael L. Keleher, William A. Keleher’s son. It also includes brief biographies of Ernest L. Blumenschein and Oscar E. Berninghaus who provided the original illustrations. WILLIAM A. KELEHER (1886–1972) observed first hand the changing circumstances of people and places of New Mexico. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, he arrived in Albuquerque two years later, with his parents and two older brothers. The older brothers died of diphtheria within a few weeks of their arrival. As an adult, Keleher worked for more than four years as a Morse operator, and later as a reporter on New Mexico newspapers. Bidding a reluctant farewell to newspaper work, Keleher studied law at Washington & Lee University and started practicing law in 1915. He was recognized as a successful attorney, being honored by the New Mexico State Bar as one of the outstanding Attorneys of the Twentieth Century. One quickly observes from his writings, and writings about him, that he lived a fruitful and exemplary life. His knowledge and understanding of humankind is evidenced by this quote attributed to Sir Thomas Browne, 1686, and printed after the title page in “Turmoil in New Mexico”: “The iniquity of oblivion scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit and perpetuity...who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable men forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time.”

Guizot's Gibbon

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Guizot's Gibbon written by Edward Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Doniphan's Epic March

Author : Joseph G. Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doniphan's Epic March written by Joseph G. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846-1847, a ragtag army of 800 American volunteers marched 3,500 miles across deserts and mountains, through Indian territory and into Mexico. There they handed the Mexican army one of its most demoralizing defeats and helped the United States win its first foreign war. Their leader Colonel Alexander Doniphan, also a volunteer, was a "natural soldier" of towering stature who became a national hero in the wake of his wartime exploits. Doniphan was a small-town Missouri lawyer untrained in military matters when he answered President Polk's call for volunteers in the war with Mexico. Working from a host of primary sources, Joseph Dawson focuses on Doniphan's extraordinary leadership and chronicles how the colonel and his 1st Missouri Mounted Regiment helped capture New Mexico and went on to invade Chihuahua. Contending with wildfires, sandstorms, poor provisions, and the threat of attack from Apaches, they eventually came face-to-face with the formidable cannon and cavalry of a much larger Mexican force. Yet, at the Battle of Sacramento, these hardy volunteers outflanked General Jose Heredia's army and claimed a stunning American victory on foreign soil. Dawson explores and analyzes the many facets of Doniphan's exploits, from the decision to proceed to Chihuahua in the wake of the Taos Revolt to the tactics that shaped his victory at Sacramento, describing that battle in heart-stopping detail. He tells how Doniphan's legal expertise enabled him to supervise America's first military government administering a conquered land at Santa Fe and highlights Doniphan's remarkable cooperation with U.S. Army officers at a time when antagonism typified relationships between volunteers and regulars. He also introduces readers to other key personalities of the campaign, from fellow officers Stephen W. Kearny and Meriwether L. Clark to James Kiker, the controversial scout whom Doniphan reluctantly trusted. Dawson's thorough account captures the expansionist mood of America in the mid-nineteenth century and helps us understand how American soldiers were motivated by the idea of Manifest Destiny. His portrait of Doniphan and his troops reinforces the importance of the citizen-soldier in American history and provides a new window on the war that changed forever the hopes and dreams of our border nations.