The Delafield Commission and the American military profession / Matthew Moten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moten, Matthew, 1960-

Series:

Texas A & M University military history series ; 67.

Texas A & M University military history series ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army--Officers--History--19th century.

United States.

United States. Military Commission to Europe.

United States. Army.

Crimean War, 1853-1856.

Armies--Europe--History--19th century.

Armies.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xvii, 267 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2000]

Summary:

The thirty-five-thousand-man army that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and other military renumeration.

Overwhelmed with internal threats such as Indian skirmishes and peasant uprisings, this poorly motivated, ill-trained army seldom enjoyed the respite, resources, or direction necessary to overcome challenges to territorial sovereignty posed by Spain, France, texas, and the United States during Mexico's first three decades of nationhood.

William A. DePalo, Jr., studies the birth and tumultuous adolescence of the Mexican national army and examines how regional, social, political, and economic factors ate away at its institutional framework and on the Mexican government's attempts at military reform, causing Mexico eventually to lose nearly one-half its national territory.

Notes:

Series statement from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0890969256

OCLC:

42812865