Life of Major-General Zachary Taylor, etc
Author : C. Frank POWELL
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : C. Frank POWELL
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Henry Montgomery
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
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Author : C. Frank Powell
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
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Author : Henry Montgomery
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1429022051
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Derby & Hewson in 1847 in 368 pages; Subjects: Presidents; United States; Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State; Biography & Autobiography / Military; Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State; History / United States / General; History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / 19th Century; Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Political;
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
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Author : John S. D. Eisenhower
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429997419
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California's admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.
Author : Henry Montgomery
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
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Author : C. Frank Powell
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Page : 121 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
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ISBN : 9780795040894
Author : Henry Montgomery
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : C. Frank Powell
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781372776991