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World History
The Mexican-American War
Discusses the historical and cultural background of the Mexican-American War and its major battles
- GenresHistory
96 pages, Library Binding
First published September 1, 1991
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Don Nardo
576 books25 followersDon Nardo (born February 22, 1947) is an American historian, composer, and writer. With close to four hundred and fifty published books, he is one of the most prolific authors in the United States, and one of the country's foremost writers of historical works for children and teens.
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August 31, 2017
An excellent primer on the U.S. war of aggression and land-grabbing against Mexico. Among the Americans who supported the war was (shockingly) the poet Walt Whitman; among those against it were the abolitionist journalist William Lloyd Garrison, the social reformer and former slave Frederick Douglass, the Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln, the essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson and the naturalist Henry David Thoreau, who willingly went to jail rather than pay the Massachusetts poll tax that supported the war, and wrote his 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience” to defend the moral obligation of non-violent, open disobedience to unjust laws.
Disappointingly, there is no account of the Mormon Battalion. The Mormons had fled the United States and illegally emigrated to Mexico where they were building a new city, when the U.S. declared war on Mexico and, fearing the Mormons would join the Mexicans against the U.S., Mormon men and boys were conscripted into the the U.S. army, for which the Mormon leader Brigham Young arranged some payment from the U.S. government. The Mormon Battalion was the only religiously based unit in United States military history. The American victory in the war meant that the Mormon colony in the Salt Lake Valley of the Rocky Mountains was then in U.S. territory.
Disappointingly, there is no account of the Mormon Battalion. The Mormons had fled the United States and illegally emigrated to Mexico where they were building a new city, when the U.S. declared war on Mexico and, fearing the Mormons would join the Mexicans against the U.S., Mormon men and boys were conscripted into the the U.S. army, for which the Mormon leader Brigham Young arranged some payment from the U.S. government. The Mormon Battalion was the only religiously based unit in United States military history. The American victory in the war meant that the Mormon colony in the Salt Lake Valley of the Rocky Mountains was then in U.S. territory.
February 5, 2012
it was okay. it helped me understand more about the Mexican-american war and american and Mexican history.
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