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Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders, (2010) online review Archived January 15, 2022, at the Wayback Machine Lewis, Felice Flanery. "Zachary Taylor and Monterrey: Generals as Diplomats". in The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History (Routledge, 2014) pp. 281 ...
Richard "Dick" Taylor (January 27, 1826 – April 12, 1879) was an American planter, politician, military historian, and Confederate general.Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, Taylor joined the Confederate States Army, serving first as a brigade commander in Virginia and later as an army commander in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.
The Thornton Affair, also known as the Thornton Skirmish, Thornton's Defeat, or Rancho Carricitos, [2] was a battle in 1846 between the military forces of the United States and Mexico 20 miles (32 km) west upriver from Zachary Taylor's camp along the Rio Grande.
In the Battle of Monterrey (September 21–24, 1846) during the Mexican–American War, General Pedro de Ampudia and the Mexican Army of the North was defeated by the Army of Occupation, a force of United States Regulars, Volunteers, and Texas Rangers under the command of General Zachary Taylor.
The Pensacola, Florida, firm of Raiford and Abercrombie provided bricks for Fort Zachary Taylor and Fort Jefferson, which was under construction at the same time. [4] Even before the onset of the American Civil War in April 1861, the United States government recognized the importance of holding Fort Taylor if the Southern states seceded.
Taylor was a cotton planter who is believed to have owned, at minimum, 81 slaves when he became president. [1] Taylor's slave ownership was a campaign issue in 1848, with opponents asserting that he would oppose the Wilmot Proviso and abolition because he owned 200-some slaves on two plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana and had recently invested heavily in "negroes" with purchases at the ...
An anecdote in a story on Page 10 of the Aug. 16, 1918, edition of the Courier Journal was the first reference to a 'naturalization tree' at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville. World War I had not ...
[3] [1] Taylor and his wife, Margaret Taylor, often visited the plantation until he was elected President of the United States in 1848. [3] Indeed, she spent most of her time at the plantation while he was serving in the Mexican–American War. [3] [5] Though Taylor won many battles in the war, the Battle of Buena Vista was his last victory in ...