30 min listen
#07 MEXICAN WAR (Part the Third)
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Jan 1, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In which we follow along as Winfield Scott marches on Mexico City & captures it in September 1847. We continue spotlighting some of the American officers, almost all West Point graduates, who fight in Mexico and then go on to some measure of fame in the Civil War.
Released:
Jan 1, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
#08 ELECTION OF 1848 & COMPROMISE OF 1850: In which we look at the Presidential Election of 1848, the crisis over the admission of California as a free state, & how Henry Clay laid the groundwork for Stephen Douglas to sweep in and save the day with the Compromise of 1850. by The Civil War & Reconstruction