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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 ...
On April 23, 1845, Brevet Brigadier General Zachary Taylor was appointed to command the 1st Military District along the Texas/Louisiana border. On April 27 Taylor received orders to move with a "Corps of Observation" to the Texas frontier. Taylor moved his forces to Corpus Christi and established a base there.
The Battle of Resaca de la Palma was one of the early engagements of the Mexican–American War, where the United States Army under General Zachary Taylor engaged the retreating forces of the Mexican Ejército del Norte ("Army of the North") under General Mariano Arista on May 9, 1846.
It was fought between U.S. forces, largely volunteers, [3] under General Zachary Taylor, and the much larger Mexican Army under General Antonio López de Santa Anna. It took place near Buena Vista, a village in the state of Coahuila , about 12 km (7.5 mi) south of Saltillo , Mexico.
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.
President Zachary Taylor, an Army hero during the Mexican-American War, owned slaves but suggested that recently formed California and New Mexico ban slavery in their state constitutions. He died ...
At the commencement of hostilities between American and Mexican forces, General Zachary Taylor asked the Texas government to mobilize troops for the war. William Gordon Cooke, the adjutant general of Texas, called for two regiments of cavalry to serve for six months, furnishing their own weapons and horses.
The main American force under General Zachary Taylor advanced from Port Isabel and successfully engaged Arista at Palo Alto on 8 May. The following day, the Mexicans were routed at Resaca de la Palma, 4 miles (6 km) from Fort Texas. The siege was lifted, with the Mexican force withdrawing south of the Rio Grande.