The Mexican War: War is a Blessing
Part Three in my Ongoing Series over the Mexican War of 1846-1848
This is the third episode in the ongoing Mexican War series. This episode focuses on the decade following the Texas Revolution with Mexican reprisals, international intrigue, the annexation of Texas, and the coming war between Mexico and the US. It includes Sam Houston, Lamar, the Black Bean incident, President Polk, Sam Grant, and a whole lot more. It is the final episode in the lead up to the Mexican War of 1846-1848.
Selected Sources:
The California Campaign of the US Mexican War by Hunt Janin and Ursula Carlson
Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life by Kit Carson
Jefferson Davis Mexican War Regiment by Joseph E Chance
The Conquest of New Mexico and California, An Historical and Personal Narrative by Philip St. George Cooke
A Perfect Gibraltar: The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846 by Chris D. Dishman
The Training Ground by Martin Dugard
So Far From God by John SD Eisenhower
Texian Iliad by Stephen Hardin
Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas by Stephen Harrigan
James K Polk and the Expansionist Impulse by Sam W Haynes
To The Halls of The Montezumas by Robert Johannsen
The Mexican war: a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the generals. To which is added, the treaty of peace, and valuable tables of the strength and losses of the United States army by Edward D. Mansfield
Mormon Battalion by Michael N Landon & Brandon J Metcalf
The Old West: The Mexican War by the Editors of Time-Life Books with text by David Nevin
The Old West: The Texans by the Editors of Time-Life Books with text by David Nevin
The Mormon Battalion by Norman Baldwin Ricketts
A Newer World by David Roberts
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott by Richard Smith Elliott
Texas and the Mexican War: A Chronicle of the Winning of the Southwest, Volume 24 by Nathaniel Stephenson