Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans were ...

Both of these would have helped strengthen his case about the superior resources the United States was able to bring to the war. The Dead March breaks much new ground in the history of the ...

He served in the 5th US Infantry Regiment, which was part of the army future President Zachary Taylor commanded during the Mexican-American war. As Taylor’s army reached the Rio Grande ...

weren’t exactly bosom buddies in those days,” Mexican-American Marine Bill Lansford remembered. “As the war advanced and we went on through, these southern guys began seeing that we weren ...

This book makes the case that Theodore Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph Wheeler, with help from Stephen Crane and Richard Harding Davis, brought about the Spanish-American War. While ...