A Journal Of The Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doniphan
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A Journal Of The Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doniphan
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Author : Jacob S. Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1972
A Journal Of The Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doniphan written by Jacob S. Robinson and has been published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
Mr. Robinson was with Colonel Doniphan's expedition against Mexico in 1846 and being an easterner, saw the Mexicans and Navajo and the landscape with fresh eyes. He felt the entire expedition was ill managed. While the military significance of the expedition is indisputable, he was often more captivated with the scenes and the people he encountered than by their war with Mexico.
A Journal Of The Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doniphan
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Author : Jacob S. Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Military Power
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Author : Brian Holden Reid
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Military Power written by Brian Holden Reid and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with History categories.
The contributors here consider the multifarious aspects of the Anglo-American approach to war. All the contributors are concerned to base their work on the overall historical context. They explore the relationship between theory and practice in military operations.
Sketches Of The Great West
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Author : Jacob S. Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Sketches Of The Great West written by Jacob S. Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Doniphan's Expedition, 1846-1847 categories.
Doniphan S Expedition
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Author : John Taylor Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1997
Doniphan S Expedition written by John Taylor Hughes and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
A teacher turned soldier, John T. Hughes like so many other volunteers saw in the outbreak of the Mexican War the possibility for adventure and glory. He joined the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers and announced that he planned to write a history of his fighting unit commanded by Col. Alexander Doniphan, who would come to be regarded as among the finest volunteer officers of the war. The result of Hughes's efforts certainly is one of the most colorful personal accounts of the Mexican War ever written. Doniphan's Expedition follows the regiment on its grueling 850-mile march from Fort Leavenworth, present-day Kansas, along the Santa Fe Trail, to invade Mexico. Along the way, Hughes observes and describes in impressive detail the discipline, morale, and effectiveness of the civilian soldiers encountering hardships on the rough plains and deserts. He gives their impressions of Santa Fe and offers valuable insight into the military occupation of that city. As significant cultural history, this account also chronicles the fears and prejudices of the soldiers meeting a seemingly strange people in a strange land. Furthermore, Hughes provides an excellent first-hand account of the two battles of the expedition: the Battle of Brazito and the Battle of Sacramento. First published in 1847, Doniphan's Expedition is now once again made available, with a new foreword by Joseph G. Dawson III, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Mexican War. General readers will find this book to be an enthralling examination of another time and place in U.S. and Mexican military and cultural history. Historians will rediscover a significant contribution to Mexican War literature.
Doniphan S Epic March
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Author : Joseph G. Dawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Doniphan S Epic March written by Joseph G. Dawson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
In 1846-1847, a ragtag army of 800 American volunteers marched 3,500 miles across deserts and mountains, through Indian territory and into Mexico. There they handed the Mexican army one of its most demoralizing defeats and helped the United States win its first foreign war. Their leader Colonel Alexander Doniphan, also a volunteer, was a "natural soldier" of towering stature who became a national hero in the wake of his wartime exploits. Doniphan was a small-town Missouri lawyer untrained in military matters when he answered President Polk's call for volunteers in the war with Mexico. Working from a host of primary sources, Joseph Dawson focuses on Doniphan's extraordinary leadership and chronicles how the colonel and his 1st Missouri Mounted Regiment helped capture New Mexico and went on to invade Chihuahua. Contending with wildfires, sandstorms, poor provisions, and the threat of attack from Apaches, they eventually came face-to-face with the formidable cannon and cavalry of a much larger Mexican force. Yet, at the Battle of Sacramento, these hardy volunteers outflanked General Jose Heredia's army and claimed a stunning American victory on foreign soil. Dawson explores and analyzes the many facets of Doniphan's exploits, from the decision to proceed to Chihuahua in the wake of the Taos Revolt to the tactics that shaped his victory at Sacramento, describing that battle in heart-stopping detail. He tells how Doniphan's legal expertise enabled him to supervise America's first military government administering a conquered land at Santa Fe and highlights Doniphan's remarkable cooperation with U.S. Army officers at a time when antagonism typified relationships between volunteers and regulars. He also introduces readers to other key personalities of the campaign, from fellow officers Stephen W. Kearny and Meriwether L. Clark to James Kiker, the controversial scout whom Doniphan reluctantly trusted. Dawson's thorough account captures the expansionist mood of America in the mid-nineteenth century and helps us understand how American soldiers were motivated by the idea of Manifest Destiny. His portrait of Doniphan and his troops reinforces the importance of the citizen-soldier in American history and provides a new window on the war that changed forever the hopes and dreams of our border nations.
Alexander William Doniphan
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Author : Roger D. Launius
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1997
Alexander William Doniphan written by Roger D. Launius and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Generals categories.
The key to Doniphan's prominence as a Missouri attorney, military leader, politician, and businessman from the 1830s to the 1880s lay in his persistent moderation on the critical issues of his day. The author describes Doniphan's success as a brigadier general of the Missouri State Militia in the war with Mexico in 1846, his influence as a Missouri Whig, and his choice not to fight in the Civil War. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bound For Santa Fe
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Author : Stephen Garrison Hyslop
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2001-12-31
Bound For Santa Fe written by Stephen Garrison Hyslop and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-31 with History categories.
The political, military, and social importance of the Santa Fe trail is revealed in this lively historical account of one of the most important roads in American history.
Refusing The Favor
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Author : Deena J. Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-05-03
Refusing The Favor written by Deena J. Gonzalez and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-03 with History categories.
Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and lucidly documents the effects of colonization, looking closely at how the women lived both before and after the United States took control of the region. Focusing on Santa Fe, which was long one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, Deena González demonstrates that women's responses to the conquest were remarkably diverse and that their efforts to preserve their culture were complex and long-lasting. Drawing on a range of sources, from newspapers to wills, deeds, and court records, González shows that the change to U.S. territorial status did little to enrich or empower the Spanish-Mexican inhabitants. The vast majority, in fact, found themselves quickly impoverished, and this trend toward low-paid labor, particularly for women, continues even today. González both examines the long-term consequences of colonization and draws illuminating parallels with the experiences of other minorities. Refusing the Favor also describes how and why Spanish-Mexican women have remained invisible in the histories of the region for so long. It avoids casting the story as simply "bad" Euro-American migrants and "good" local people by emphasizing the concrete details of how women lived. It covers every aspect of their experience, from their roles as businesswomen to the effects of intermarriage, and it provides an essential key to the history of New Mexico. Anyone with an interest in Western history, gender studies, Chicano/a studies, or the history of borderlands and colonization will find the book an invaluable resource and guide.
Early Midwestern Travel Narratives
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Author : Robert Rogers Hubach
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1998
Early Midwestern Travel Narratives written by Robert Rogers Hubach and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First published in 1961, Early Midwestern Travel Narratives records and describes first-person records of journeys in the frontier and early settlement periods which survive in both manuscript and print. Geographically, it deals with the states once part of the Old Northwest Territory-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota-and with Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Robert Hubach arranged the narratives in chronological order and makes the distinction among diaries (private records, with contemporaneously dated entries), journals (non-private records with contemporaneously dated entries), and "accounts," which are of more literary, descriptive nature. Early Midwestern Travel Narratives remains to this day a unique comprehensive work that fills a long existing need for a bibliography, summary, and interpretation of these early Midwestern travel narratives.