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Panting for glory : the Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War /
Armed with percussion rifles when most other US soldiers still carried flintlock muskets, the "Mississippi Rifles" served in the war against Mexico that followed the annexation of Texas in 1845. In Panting for Glory: The Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War, Richard Bruce Winders skillful...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ;
no. 151. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Glory
- Introduction: Mississippi on the eve of war
- Mobilizing Mississippi for war
- Off to war
- The march to Monterrey
- The 1st Mississippi Regiment at Monterrey
- Life under the armistice
- The Victoria expedition
- Glory bound
- The 1st Mississippi Rifles at Buena Vista
- Homeward bound
- The 2nd Mississippi Rifles go to Mexico
- Discontented poor fellows
- Life in the backwaters of the war
- Evaluating the role of the Mississippi volunteers
- Appendix 1: The Model 1841 rifle
- Appendix 2: County of origin by regiment
- Appendix 3: County of origin by regiment population
- Appendix 4: The 1st and 2nd Regiments of Mississippi Rifles: comparison of statistics.