Invading Mexico
Title | Invading Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wheelan |
Publisher | Carroll & Graf Publishers |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2007-03-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Presents an account of the Mexican War, providing an analysis of its cause, battles, weapons, and outcome.
A Wicked War
Title | A Wicked War PDF eBook |
Author | Amy S. Greenberg |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2013-08-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307475999 |
The definitive history of the often forgotten U.S.-Mexican War paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world—from Indian fights and Manifest Destiny, to secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. “If one can read only a single book about the Mexican-American War, this is the one to read.” —The New York Review of Books Often overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history.
The Spanish Invasion of Mexico 1519–1521
Title | The Spanish Invasion of Mexico 1519–1521 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles M. Robinson III |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472810244 |
The Spanish conquest of Mexico was the most remarkable military expedition in history, and in achieving it, Hernan Cortes proved himself as one of the greatest generals of all time. This book explains the background of the Aztec Empire and of the Spanish presence in Mexico. It describes the lives of the Aztecs in their glittering capital and of the Europeans who learned to adapt and survive in an alien and often dangerous world. The invasion was a war between civilizations, pitting the fatalism and obsessive ritual of the Aztecs against soldiers fighting for riches, their lives, and eventually their souls.
The Spanish Invasion of Mexico 1519–1521
Title | The Spanish Invasion of Mexico 1519–1521 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles M Robinson III |
Publisher | Osprey Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004-04-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781841765631 |
The Spanish conquest of Mexico was the most remarkable military expedition in history, and in achieving it, Hernan Cortes proved himself as one of the greatest generals of all time. This book explains the background of the Aztec Empire and of the Spanish presence in Mexico. It describes the lives of the Aztecs in their glittering capital and of the Europeans who learned to adapt and survive in an alien and often dangerous world. The invasion was a war between civilizations, pitting the fatalism and obsessive ritual of the Aztecs against soldiers fighting for riches, their lives, and eventually their souls.
Invading Guatemala
Title | Invading Guatemala PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Restall |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271027584 |
The invasions of Guatemala -- Pedro de Alvarado's letters to Hernando Cortes, 1524 -- Other Spanish accounts -- Nahua accounts -- Maya accounts
The Story of Mexico
Title | The Story of Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | R. Conrad Stein |
Publisher | Morgan Reynolds Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Mexico |
ISBN | 9781599350523 |
Orphaned just years after his birth, and cast into life with a negligent uncle, Benito Juarez seemed destined to live his life as a humble shepherd in a tiny village outside of Oaxaca, Mexico. But young Benito had a passion for learning, and a desire to achieve more. This ambition led him to study to join the clergy, and then into law school. But soon the revolution sweeping across his country led the humble lawyer from a governorship in Oaxaca to an exile in New Orleans, and then back to Mexico, where he became the country's first Indian president. But Juarez's struggles didn't end there. Soon after coming to power, Juarez confronted power-hungry generals within his own country, and the invading influence of Napoleon III, who hoped to make Mexico part of his global empire, ruled over by the installed emperor, Maximilian Hapsburg. Juarez alone, a man who grew up in poverty as part of one of Mexico's oppressed peoples, stood up to the French Empire and reclaimed Mexico for its people. Book jacket.
The Mexican-American War Of 1846-1848
Title | The Mexican-American War Of 1846-1848 PDF eBook |
Author | Humberto Garza |
Publisher | Bookbaby |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781543989649 |
Humberto Garza provides the reader with historical facts, discrepancies, and vital information that previously have been blatantly omitted, through error or intentionality, from our history textbooks as to the factors leading to the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. He uses references, footnotes, and numerous direct quotes to provide the reader with a unique perspective of a series of intriguing events that dramatically altered the course of two nations; and today both nations continue to live with the residual aftereffects. Garza asks intriguing questions: Why were historical figures such as Commodore Stockton, Commodore Sloat, Consul Thomas O. Larkin, and Brigadier General Kearny securing for the United States all of Mexico's territories (Alta California, Nuevo Mexico, and the Southwest) in July 1846, only two months after Congress authorized President Polk "to join an existing war"? How did they know the Mexican-American War had started? The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to end the war was signed on February 2, 1848, almost 2 years later, how did they know the outcome of the war and the terms of the treaty to cede territory? Garza presents a unique and thought-provoking perspective on the real causes of the Mexican American War. He courageously questions the validity of many American historians' assertions as they relate to the causes leading to this war. His research reexamines the United States' reasons for invading Mexico and what really happened at the Thornton Skirmish. He also closely reexamines relevant maps and explains their discrepancies in relation to the "disputed territory" in Texas, the Thornton Skirmish, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.