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Invading Mexico, America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848, Joseph Wheelan

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Invading Mexico, America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848, Joseph Wheelan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-442) and index

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Invading Mexico

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

84854578

Responsibility statement

Joseph Wheelan

Sub title

America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848

Table Of Contents

Cast of characters -- Prologue -- "The mole" -- The dynamo -- The Pacific dream -- The Lone Star Republic -- To manufacture a war -- The army and the border -- The negotiations that never were -- The war begins -- "A state of war exists" -- The explorer and the marine -- Testing the enemy -- A question of "peculiar delicacy" -- Zachary Taylor's army -- Monterrey -- The war in the West -- America's Xenophon -- Planning a second front -- Dissent, patriotism, and the press -- Buena Vista -- The war in Congress -- Scott's epic march begins -- Planning the end game -- Closing in on the prize -- The halls of Montezuma -- Frustration -- Peace at last -- Afterword -- Epilogue

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