LAVENDER : Climax at Buena Vista (fülszöveg)
The Mexican War called into conflict three famous and ambitious men—General Zachary ("Old Rough and Ready") Taylor, General Winfield ("Old Fuss and Feathers") Scott, and the ogre of the Alamo, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
The battle of Buena Vista profoundly affected all three.
No one anticipated that a major battle would be fought at so remote a spot as the Mexican rancho of Buena Vista. Scott had been restored to a state of uneasy grace in order to lead the campaign against Mexico City, while Taylor was relegated to obscurity in the hope that his presidential ambitions would quietly flicker out. But, in February 1847, Santa Anna marched north and attacked Taylor's depleted forces.
In this new contribution to the Great Battles of History series, David Lavender gives a fresh view of the action and its historical import: first the preliminary campaigns and then the two days of fierce fighting at Buena Vista—the breakthrough by Santa Anna's men, the magnificent recovery by the outnumbered Americans, the confused withdrawal of the Mexicans, and, behind the lines, the acidulous intrigues that caused whole battalions to be shifted first one way and then another.
Climax at Buena Vista is the complete story of the decisive battle of the Mexican War—from which General Zachary Taylor emerged with the Presidency in hand ... and the United States with two fifths of the enemy's territory.
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