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　　A war that started under questionable pretexts. A president

who is convinced of his country’s might and right. A military and

political stalemate with United States troops occupying a foreign

land against a stubborn and deadly insurgency.

The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the war is one of

the least known and most important in both Mexican and United

States history—a war that really began much earlier and whose

consequences still echo today. Acclaimed historian David A. Clary

presents this epic struggle for a continent for the first time from

both sides, using original Mexican and North American

sources.

To Mexico, the yanqui illegals pouring into her territories of

Texas and California threatened Mexican sovereignty and security.

To North Americans, they manifested their destiny to rule the

continent. Two nations, each raising an eagle as her standard,

blustered and blundered into a war because no one on either side

was brave enough to resist the march into it.

In Eagles and Empire, Clary draws vivid portraits of the period’s

most fascinating characters, from the cold-eyed, stubborn United

States president James K. Polk to Mexico’s flamboyant and corrupt

general-president-dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna; from the

legendary and ruthless explorer John Charles Frémont and his guide

Kit Carson to the “Angel of Monterey” and the “Boy Heroes” of

Chapultepec; from future presidents such as Benito Juárez and

Zachary Taylor to soldiers who became famous in both the Mexican

and North American civil wars that soon followed. Here also are the

Irish Soldiers of Mexico and the Yankee sailors of two squadrons,

hero-bandits and fighting Indians of both nations, guerrilleros and

Texas Rangers, and some amazing women soldiers.

From the fall of the Alamo and harrowing marches of thousands of

miles in the wilderness to the bloody, dramatic conquest of Mexico

City and the insurgency that continued to resist, this is a

riveting narrative history that weaves together events on the front

lines—where Indian raids, guerrilla attacks, and atrocities were

matched by stunning acts of heroism and sacrifice—with battles on

two home fronts—political backstabbing, civil uprisings, and battle

lines between Union and Confederacy and Mexican Federalists and

Centralists already being drawn. The definitive account of a

defining war, Eagles and Empire is page-turning history—a book not

to be missed.

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