FPRI Wachman Center

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• FPRI Wachman Center
• History Institute on What Students Need to Know
  About Americas Wars, Part I 1622-1920
• July 27-28, 2008
• The Mexican War
• What Students Need to Know
• Paul Springer
• U.S. Military Academy, West Point

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Outline

• Introduction and Background
• A. Texas Independence
• B. Manifest Destiny
• C. Causes of the War
• The Northern Campaign
• A. Zachary Taylor
• B. Palo Alto/Resaca de la Palma
• C. Monterrey
• D. Cerro Gordo
• The Central Campaign
• A. Winfield Scott
• B. Veracruz
• C. The Interior
• D. Mexico City
• Occupation and Regime Change
• A. The Aftermath

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The status quo antebellum and Manifest Destiny
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Davy Crockett
Jim Bowie
Heroes of the Alamo
John Wayne
William Travis
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American political leadership during the war
John Slidell, Ambassador to Mexico
James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United
States
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Major campaigns of the war
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American military leadership during the war
Zachary Taylor Old Rough and Ready
Winfield Scott Old Fuss and Feathers
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American military leadership during the war
John C. Fremont
Stephen Watts Kearny
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The first engagements
Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, 8-9
May 1846
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American troops under Gen. Zachary Taylor
storming the hills at Monterrey, September 1846
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Mexican political/military leadership during the
war
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Pedro de Ampudia
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Attacking the beaches near Veracruz
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Scotts invasion route toward Mexico City
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Seeking to avoid fever season by leaving the
lowlands
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Cerro Gordo The tables are turned
Captain Robert E. Lee
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The assault at Cerro Gordo
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A question of nationality and loyalty The San
Patricios
Captured San Patricios await their fate
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Occupying Mexico City
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A training ground for the Civil War?
Prominent Mexican War veterans
Union Don Carlos Buell Ulysses S.
Grant Winfield Scott Hancock Joseph Hooker George
G. Meade Fitz John Porter John F. Reynolds John
Sedgwick Lew Wallace W.H.L. Wallace John E. Wool

• Confederate
• Braxton Bragg
• Simon Bolivar Buckner
• Jefferson Davis
• Richard Ewell
• P. Hill
• Joseph E. Johnston
• Robert E. Lee
• James Longstreet
• Lafayette McLaws
• John C. Pemberton
• Lloyd Tilghman

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Results of the War