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082	1		_aLAS 973.62 WHE
100	1		_aWheelan, Joseph
245	1	0	_aInvading Mexico : _bAmerica's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 _c/ Joseph Wheelan
250			_a1st Carroll & Graf ed
260			_aNew York _b: Carroll & Graf _c, 2007.
300			_axix, 490 p., [8] p. of plates _b: ill., map, ports. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [431]-442) and index.
505	0		_aCast 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.
650		0	_aMexican War, 1846-1848
651		4	_aUnited States _x-History
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