The Mexican War, 1846-1848U of Nebraska Press, 1992 M01 1 - 454 páginas "Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. 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. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985). |
Contenido
Imperial America I | 1 |
The Failure of Graduated Pressure | 16 |
Taylor in Texas | 32 |
List of Maps | 42 |
The Roar of Guns Along the Rio Grande | 46 |
Mouth of the Rio Grande | 51 |
Battle of Palo Alto | 56 |
Battle of Resaca de la Palma | 61 |
California Lost and Regained | 183 |
The War in the North after Monterrey | 201 |
Saltillo and Vicinity | 203 |
Battle of Buena Vista | 213 |
The Veracruz Expedition | 232 |
Veracruz and Vicinity | 243 |
Into the Valley of Mexico | 259 |
Central Mexico | 262 |
The Declaration of War | 66 |
The Monterrey Campaign | 81 |
The Northern Theater of War | 91 |
Battle of Monterrey | 98 |
The Naval War in the Gulf of Mexico 1846 | 106 |
The Army of the West | 127 |
New Mexico | 132 |
The Chihuahua Expeditions | 145 |
California Conquest | 164 |
California | 175 |
Battle of Cerro Gordo | 266 |
On to Mexico City | 279 |
Mexico City and Vicinity | 289 |
Battles of Contreras and Churubusco | 299 |
The Fall of Mexico City | 306 |
Battles of Mexico | 314 |
Mexico Occupied | 326 |
Politics and Mr Polks War | 358 |
Peace at Last | 378 |
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