The Mexican War, 1846-1848 K. Jack Bauer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, K. Jack (Karl Jack), 1926-

Contributor:

James H. Sutton Jr. and Sylvia Leal Carvajal Collection

Series:

Wars of the United States (Macmillan & Co.)

The wars of the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican War, 1846-1848.

Physical Description:

xxi, 454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan, 1974.

Summary:

This volume tells the story of the Mexican-American War, an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession.

Contents:

Imperial America

The failure of graduated pressure

Taylor in Texas

The roar of guns along the Rio Grande

The declaration of war

The Monterrey campaign

The naval war in the Gulf of Mexico, 1846

The army of the West

The Chihuahua expeditions

California conquest

California lost and regained

The war in the north after Monterrey

The Veracruz expedition

Into the Valley of Mexico

On to Mexico City

The fall of Mexico City

Mexico occupied

Politics and Mr. Polk's War

Peace at last.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bauer, K. Jack (Karl Jack), 1926- Mexican War, 1846-1848.

OCLC:

835363