Invading Mexico : America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848
Wheelan, Joseph
Invading Mexico : America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 / Joseph Wheelan - 1st Carroll & Graf ed - New York : Carroll & Graf , 2007. - xix, 490 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-442) and index.
Cast of characters -- Prologue -- "The mole" -- The dynamo -- The Pacific dream -- The Lone Star Republic -- To manufacture a war -- The army and the border -- The negotiations that never were -- The war begins -- "A state of war exists" -- The explorer and the marine -- Testing the enemy -- A question of "peculiar delicacy" -- Zachary Taylor's army -- Monterrey -- The war in the West -- America's Xenophon -- Planning a second front -- Dissent, patriotism, and the press -- Buena Vista -- The war in Congress -- Scott's epic march begins -- Planning the end game -- Closing in on the prize -- The halls of Montezuma -- Frustration -- Peace at last -- Afterword -- Epilogue.
078671719X 9780786717194
2007298212
Mexican War, 1846-1848
United States---History
LAS 973.62 WHE
Invading Mexico : America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 / Joseph Wheelan - 1st Carroll & Graf ed - New York : Carroll & Graf , 2007. - xix, 490 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-442) and index.
Cast of characters -- Prologue -- "The mole" -- The dynamo -- The Pacific dream -- The Lone Star Republic -- To manufacture a war -- The army and the border -- The negotiations that never were -- The war begins -- "A state of war exists" -- The explorer and the marine -- Testing the enemy -- A question of "peculiar delicacy" -- Zachary Taylor's army -- Monterrey -- The war in the West -- America's Xenophon -- Planning a second front -- Dissent, patriotism, and the press -- Buena Vista -- The war in Congress -- Scott's epic march begins -- Planning the end game -- Closing in on the prize -- The halls of Montezuma -- Frustration -- Peace at last -- Afterword -- Epilogue.
078671719X 9780786717194
2007298212
Mexican War, 1846-1848
United States---History
LAS 973.62 WHE
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