A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American WarUniv of North Carolina Press, 2002 - 223 psl. The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to conquer an unfamiliar nation and people. Through an examina |
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... Texas , ca. 1845 115 Lewis Cass , Democratic presidential candidate , in the role of Bowery B'hoy 118 Lieutenant Abner Doubleday , First U.S. Artillery Regiment , with unidentified Mexicans 122 General John E. Wool and staff , in ...
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... TEXAS San Antonio Wool , 1846 River Nueces Taylor , 1846 Corpus Christi Fort Brown Point Isabel Saltillo Camargo . Scott , 1847 Monterrey Matamoros Parras Buena Vista Victoria Axis of U.S. advance High ground ( above 6,000 feet ) San ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Regular Army and Antebellum Labor Service and Servitude | 13 |
Citizens Militias in the United States | 31 |
Volunteer Excitement among the Masses | 45 |
Forced to Volunteer The Politics of Compulation | 61 |
Discipline ans Desertion in Mexico | 83 |
Atrocity The Wage of Manifest Destiny | 113 |
Dreams of Conquest and the Limits of the White Mans Democracy | 139 |
Free Soil and the Heritage of the CitizenSoldier | 155 |
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