BUENA VISTA, BATTLE OF

military engagement in the Mexican War, fought Feb. 22–23, 1847. The battle site was just S of Saltillo, Coahuila, in Mexico. Gen. Zachary Taylor, disobeying orders from the U.S. government, had advanced here. Gen. Santa Anna, having gathered a Mexican army, made a long march north and, attacking Taylor's forces furiously, outflanked them. The fighting was hard and at the end of the second day seemed a drawn battle, but on the night of Feb. 23 the Mexican army withdrew, leaving Taylor in control of the north of Mexico.

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books on: Buena Vista Battle Of  - 286 results

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From Alice to Buena Vista: The Films of Wim Wenders
Book by Roger Bromley; Praeger, 2001
Subjects: Wenders, Wim--Criticism And Interpretation
...Chillingworth gradually assumes is not explored, nor is there any real sense of the formers soul sickness or of the anguished battle between his public persona and his private knowledge and guilt. Above all, the film lacks any sense of depth or interiority...
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This Grand Spectacle: The Battle of Chattanooga
Book by Steven E. Woodworth; McWhiney Foundation, 1999
Subjects: Chattanooga (Tenn.), Battle Of, 1863, Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
...originally assigned to topographical engineers, he served as a 2nd lieutenant in the Mexican War, earning a brevet for Buena Vista; after transferring to the dragoons he saw a variety of duties on the frontier, during the Kansas border wars, and...
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Book by James M. McPherson; Oxford University Press, 1988
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
...Hancock fought side by side in the battle of Churubusco; sixteen years later...volunteers broke a Mexican charge at Buena Vista while artillery officers George H...fought alongside each other in this battle with the same spirit they would fight...
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Youth's Battle for the Ballot: A History of Voting Age in America
Book by Wendell W. Cultice; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Soldiers--Suffrage--History, Soldiers--Suffrage--United States--History, Voting Age--History, Voting Age--United States--History
...Goliad found expression in the battle cry, the words of which had...his men two days before the Battle of San Jacinto, April 21...Zachary Taylor into Monterrey and Buena Vista and of General Winfield Scott...men who fought the countrys battles were excluded from the franchise...
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The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980
Book by Charles C. Bolton; University Press of Mississippi, 2005
Subjects: African Americans--Education--Mississippi, Massive Resistance (Southern States History, 1956-1964)--Mississippi, School Integration--Mississippi, Segregation In Education--Mississippi
...eighth grade. Emily May Carouthers remembered that in the early twentieth century, she attended school one year in Buena Vista with her cousin Jeremiah, and then he turned around the next year and taught me at the same school ... he had finished...
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journal articles on: Buena Vista Battle Of  - 46 results

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Buena Vista: the Controversy in Verse
Journal article by Nancy Snell Griffith; The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2001
Subjects: Antebellum period, Arkansas, Literature, Media coverage, Mexican-American War
...subsequently the tide of battle turned. Though Buena Vista ended as an important...fled, And thus on Buena Vistas heights a long days...old General another battle won: And still our...of "The Battle of Buena Vista" Oh, Albert Pike...
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Remarks of Marvin E. Wolfgang at the Guns and Violence Symposium at Northwestern University School of Law, February 3, 1996
Journal article; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 86, 1996
Subjects: Gertz, Marc--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gun control--Laws, regulations, etc., Kleck, Gary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Violent crimes--Analysis, Wolfgang, Marvin E.--Addresses, essays, lectures
...United States v. 900 Rio Vista Blvd., 803 F.2d 625 (11th...Forfeiture After United States v. 92 Buena Vista Avenue: Still an Uphill Battle for Third Party Claimants...see United States v. 92 Buena Vista Ave., 113 S. Ct. 1126...
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Standing Tall with Sarah Bowman: The Amazon of the Border
Journal article by Mercedes Graf; Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, 2001
Subjects: Bowman, Sarah, Mexican War, 1846-1848, Taylor, Zachary, United States history--War with Mexico, 1845-1848, Women in war
...men in the immediacy of battle; and it has also been...of the compound as the battle continued and that she...thick of the battle of Buena Vista. Dr. A. Wislizenus...behavior during the battle of Buena Vista was highly praised...
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"Crusade of Conquest": Orientalist Surrogations in Manifest-destinarian Theatre
Journal article by Mark Evans Bryan; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol. 21, 2009
Subjects: Audiences, Culture, Mexico, Muslims, Slavery, Theater, United States
...Bombardment of Vera Cruz, and the Battle of Buena Vista."8 Journalists described a production...to whom Zoraya is betrothed, do battle, Osman and his confederates scheme...war. In the key moment of the battle for Mecca, the dramas hero rallies...
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John E. Wool and the New York City Draft Riots of 1863: A Reassessment
Journal article by Laurence M. Hauptman; Civil War History, Vol. 49, 2003
Subjects: Riots, Seymour, Horatio, Thomas, Lorenzo, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Research, Welles, Gideon, Wool, John Ellis
...gained accolades at the Battles of Queenston Heights...defeat of the enemy at the Battle of Buena Vista. By the Civil War...maintained that Wools "battles had all been fought...Because Brown was a battle-tested war hero, Wool...
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America's Forgotten War
Magazine article by Robert W. Johannsen; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 20, Spring 1996
Subjects: Mexico--History, United States history--War with Mexico, 1845-1848, United States--Relations with Mexico
...the first major battles of the war, Palo...the hard-fought battle for the northern...February in the Battle of Buena Vista, fought in a narrow...Annas Retreat from Buena Vista. The Mexican...following the first battles in May 1846, but...
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Mexican War Fought by Few
Magazine article by Richard K. Kolb, Joe Moran; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 88, January 2001
Subjects: Mexican-American War, Pierce, Franklin (1804-69), Politics, Presidents, Social impact, Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850)
...Monterrey and Buena Vista in Mexico. Because...country and at the battles of Contreras and...gallantly at the Battle of Buena Vista. Rated among...the day at the Battle of San Pasqual...participated in the battles of San Gabriel...
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Crossroads of Conflict
Magazine article by Tom Stabile; Humanities, Vol. 19, September 1998
Subjects: Documentary films, KERA-TV-Dallas TX, Mexico, Military history, Television programs, Television stations, United States, War
...just as the battles at Buena Vista and Cerro Gordo...impressionistic battle recreations...individual battles, as well as...lose pivotal battles. The film...he fled the battle at Cerro Gordo...The Battle of Buena Vista is told...
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Storm over Mexico: Godfrey Hodgson Tells the Colourful Story of Jane McManus, Political Journalist, Land Speculator, Pioneer Settler in Texas and Propagandist Who Believed That the United States Had a 'Manifest Destiny' to Rule Mexico and the Caribbean
Magazine article by Godfrey Hodgson; History Today, Vol. 55, March 2005
Subjects: Cazneau, Jane McManus Storm--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Cazneau, Jane McManus Storm--Political activity, Cazneau, Jane McManus Storm--Travel, Conduct of life--1846 AD, Land speculators--1846 AD, Land speculators--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Manifest destiny--1846 AD, Messianism, American--1846 AD
...the slaveholding South lost the battle over free soil in the mid-West...against the Mexicans in the Battle of Buena Vista of February 22nd-23rd. General...Mexico City after the defeat at Buena Vista, where he assumed the presidency...
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Triple-war Doubleday
Magazine article by Tim Dyhouse; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 87, February 2000
Subjects: Baseball, Doubleday, Abner, Personal profiles, Veterans, War
...days later as the battle climaxed and ended...in the pivotal Battle of Buena Vista on Feb. 27, 1847...important subsequent battles in the war. He...divisions at the battles of South Mountain...First Corps at the Battle of Gettysburg...
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newspaper articles on: Buena Vista Battle Of  - 126 results

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X-Men Fight Evil, Prejudice
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 15, 2009
Subjects: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Inc., Motion picture industry, Movie industry
...Adventures, Volumes 1 through 4 (Buena Vista Home Entertainment, rated TV...plenty of mutants to embrace and battle over the series 76 episodes. Touching...Best Eetras: It pains me that Buena Vista treats the series with such disrespect...
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Hilarity Reigns as Tick, Pals Battle Absurd Villains
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 22, 2006
...Reigns as Tick, Pals Battle Absurd Villains. Byline...Tick vs. Season One" (Buena Vista Home Entertainment...action-packed space battles and a cavalcade of angst...adventures.Photo Courtesy of Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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St. Charles East Hosts 13th Annual 'Battle of the Big Butts' on Thursday St. Charles East Hosts 13th Annual 'Battle of the Big Butts' on Thursday
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 19, 2011
Subjects: Wheaton College
...East Hosts 13th Annual Battle of the Big Butts on Thursday...East Hosts 13th Annual Battle of the Big Butts on Thursday...St. Charles East, the Battle of the Big Butts lineman...Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Eighty players...
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Notre Dame Gets off on Right Foot as Battle, Defense Frustrate Aggies
Newspaper article by Tim Casey; The Washington Times, September 3, 2000
...final three quarters, Battle either ran or threw on...This game showed that Battle is explosive and a great...and more confident." Battles debut was not the only...shift in momentum, as Battle lofted a 46-yard touchdown...Albion 41, Mac Murray 0 Buena Vista 27, Luther 14 Capital...
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Battle of the Bands; MORE REVIEWS
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 30, 2005
Subjects: Motion pictures--Movie reviews
Battle of the Bands; MORE REVIEWS. Byline: CHARLOTTE OSULLIVAN DIG...music documentaries seemed determined to accentuate the positive (think Buena Vista Social Club or Down From the Mountain). But Dig! thrives on dysfunction...
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encyclopedia articles on: Buena Vista Battle Of  - 6 results

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Buena Vista, Battle Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUENA VISTA, BATTLE OF military engagement in the Mexican War, fought Feb. 22 23, 1847. The battle site was just S of Saltillo, Coahuila...end of the second day seemed a drawn battle, but on the night of Feb. 23 the Mexican...
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Mexican War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...he occupied after a five-day battle (Sept. 20 24, 1846). In June...position when hit by Santa Anna in the battle of Buena Vista (Feb., 1847). The fighting...1975), and J. M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (1988...
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Taylor, Zachary
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Matamoros. Later he forced the surrender of the Mexican stronghold at Monterrey. In 1847 he won the decisive battle of Buena Vista in the face of great odds. A popular hero, Taylor was nominated for President on the Whig ticket, was elected...
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Coahuila
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...contributed to the Texas Revolution (1835 36). During the Mexican War, Saltillo was of strategic importance, and the battle of Buena Vista was fought nearby. Joined with Nuevo Leon by the constitution of 1857, Coahuila regained its separate status...
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Bragg, Braxton
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...colonel for distinguished service at Buena Vista. He resigned from the army in 1856...Johnstons 2d Corps, leading it in the battle of Shiloh (April). With Johnstons...campaign , Bragg, victorious in the battle of Chickamauga, laid siege to the...
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