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Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War.
"General Taylor's Plantation" probably depicted 1840s, from Das illustrirte Mississippithal by Henry Lewis (SIUE Digital) Henry Hawkins (1819–1917) accompanied Taylor on his Mexican-American War campaigns ("Former slave of General Zachary Taylor dies" Natchez Democrat, July 6, 1917) Map from 1866 showing Cypress Grove Plantation along the Mississippi River as "Genl. Taylors Old Place"
Richard "Dick" Taylor (January 27, 1826 – April 12, 1879) was an American planter, politician, military historian, and Confederate general. Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, Taylor joined the Confederate States Army, serving first as a brigade commander in Virginia and later as an army commander in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.
President James K. Polk dispatched Gen. Zachary Taylor to the Texas coast to secure the land between the rivers, the "Nueces Strip." Supplies and troops were funneled through Lavaca and Corpus ...
In the Battle of Monterrey (September 21–24, 1846) during the Mexican–American War, General Pedro de Ampudia and the Mexican Army of the North was defeated by the Army of Occupation, a force of United States Regulars, Volunteers, and Texas Rangers under the command of General Zachary Taylor . The hard-fought urban combat led to heavy ...
1,048 wounded. 1,894 missing [ 3]: 211. The Battle of Buena Vista (February 22–23, 1847), known as the Battle of La Angostura in Mexico, and sometimes as Battle of Buena Vista/La Angostura, was a battle of the Mexican–American War. It was fought between US forces, largely volunteers, [ 5] under General Zachary Taylor, and the much larger ...
The Battle of Resaca de la Palma was one of the early engagements of the Mexican–American War, where the United States Army under General Zachary Taylor engaged the retreating forces of the Mexican Ejército del Norte ("Army of the North") under General Mariano Arista on May 9, 1846. The United States emerged victorious and forced the ...
The tree would not last forever, being felled following a lightning strike in 1951. "Camp Taylor's 'Naturalization Tree,' a 140-year-old ash commemorated by the Fincastle chapter, D.A.R., in 1921 ...