ebooks Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era: 1945-91 by Nicholas Eberstadt in History

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'There never was so fine an American army;' wrote second-lieutenant; John Sedgwick; in describing the troops under Major-General Zachary Taylor in 1846. Another then second-lieutenant; destined to see many more armies; U.S. Grant; also thought highly of them: 'The rank and file were probably inferior … to the volunteers that participated in all the later battles of the war; but they were brave men; and then drill and discipline brought out all there was in them.' Philip Katcher writes the story of the regulars and volunteers who fought in the Mexican-American War; detailing the infantry; cavalry; artillery and staff of both the American and Mexican armies.