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Our 1846 war with Mexico was a blatant land grab provoked by President James Polk. And while it secured the entire Southwest and California for America, it also exacerbated regional tensions over slavery, created the first significant antiwar movement in America, and helped lead the nation into civil war. A Wicked War is the definitive history of this conflict that turned America into a continental power. Amy Greenberg describes the battles between...
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In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.
In March 1847, 8,000 soldiers landed on the beaches of Vera Cruz, led by the army's commanding...
In March 1847, 8,000 soldiers landed on the beaches of Vera Cruz, led by the army's commanding...
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[2022]
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"El año es 1846. Después de la controvertida anexión de Tejas, el ejército de los Estados Unidos marcha hacia el sur para provocar la guerra con México por la disputada frontera del río Grande. Ximena Salomé es una curandera mexicana que sueña con formar un hogar con el hombre que ama. Pero cuando los Rangers de Tejas asaltan su rancho y matan a su esposo, sus sueños se reducen a cenizas. Prometiendo honrar la memoria de su esposo...
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2008
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A profile of the twelfth president traces his rise in the military and successes in the Mexican war to his election as the first president without a prior political office, in an account that also offers insight into Taylor's views on slavery and his sudden death
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