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- catalog abstract "In 1846-1847, a ragtag army of 800 American volunteers marched 3,500 miles across deserts and mountains, through Indian territory and into Mexico. There they handed the Mexican army one of its most demoralizing defeats and helped the United States win its first foreign war. Their leader Colonel Alexander Doniphan, also a volunteer, was a "natural soldier" of towering stature who became a national hero in the wake of his wartime exploits. Doniphan was a small-town Missouri lawyer untrained in military matters when he answered President Polk's call for volunteers in the war with Mexico. Working from a host of primary sources, Joseph Dawson focuses on Doniphan's extraordinary leadership and chronicles how the colonel and his 1st Missouri Mounted Regiment helped capture New Mexico and went on to invade Chihuahua. Dawson's thorough account captures the expansionist mood of America in the mid-nineteenth century and helps us understand how American soldiers were motivated by the idea of Manifest Destiny. His portrait of Doniphan and his troops reinforces the importance of the citizen-soldier in American history and provides a new window on the war that changed forever the hopes and dreams of our border nations.".
- catalog contributor b11095120.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "Dawson's thorough account captures the expansionist mood of America in the mid-nineteenth century and helps us understand how American soldiers were motivated by the idea of Manifest Destiny. His portrait of Doniphan and his troops reinforces the importance of the citizen-soldier in American history and provides a new window on the war that changed forever the hopes and dreams of our border nations.".
- catalog description "Doniphan was a small-town Missouri lawyer untrained in military matters when he answered President Polk's call for volunteers in the war with Mexico. Working from a host of primary sources, Joseph Dawson focuses on Doniphan's extraordinary leadership and chronicles how the colonel and his 1st Missouri Mounted Regiment helped capture New Mexico and went on to invade Chihuahua.".
- catalog description "In 1846-1847, a ragtag army of 800 American volunteers marched 3,500 miles across deserts and mountains, through Indian territory and into Mexico. There they handed the Mexican army one of its most demoralizing defeats and helped the United States win its first foreign war. Their leader Colonel Alexander Doniphan, also a volunteer, was a "natural soldier" of towering stature who became a national hero in the wake of his wartime exploits.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-315) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue. Two Tall Men: A Legendary Meeting -- 1. Going Off to War -- 2. Assembly at Fort Leavenworth -- 3. Down the Santa Fe Trail to Invade Mexico -- 4. Military Government in Santa Fe and the Indian Treaties -- 5. The Battle at Brazito -- 6. "In the Midst of the Enemy's Country" -- 7. The Battle of Sacramento -- 8. From Chihuahua to the Coast -- 9. Coming Home a Hero: "American Xenophon" -- 10. The Hero in the Crisis of the Union -- Epilogue: After Doniphan's Wars.".
- catalog extent "xii, 325 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Doniphan's epic march.".
- catalog identifier "0700609563 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Doniphan's epic march.".
- catalog isPartOf "Modern war studies".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lawrence : University Press of Kansas,".
- catalog relation "Doniphan's epic march.".
- catalog subject "973.7/478 21".
- catalog subject "Doniphan, Alexander William.".
- catalog subject "E409.5.M58 D39 1999".
- catalog subject "Mexican War, 1846-1848 Campaigns.".
- catalog subject "Mexican War, 1846-1848 Regimental histories.".
- catalog subject "United States. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 1st (1846-1847)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue. Two Tall Men: A Legendary Meeting -- 1. Going Off to War -- 2. Assembly at Fort Leavenworth -- 3. Down the Santa Fe Trail to Invade Mexico -- 4. Military Government in Santa Fe and the Indian Treaties -- 5. The Battle at Brazito -- 6. "In the Midst of the Enemy's Country" -- 7. The Battle of Sacramento -- 8. From Chihuahua to the Coast -- 9. Coming Home a Hero: "American Xenophon" -- 10. The Hero in the Crisis of the Union -- Epilogue: After Doniphan's Wars.".
- catalog title "Doniphan's epic march : the 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War / Joseph G. Dawson III.".
- catalog type "text".