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Mexican-American War

Lectures in History

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Polk's War Message, American Blood on American Soil

The two nations are at war. John c calhoun, fellow democrat from south carolina, is going to lead opponents of pulk during the war. What calhoun doesn't like is what he sees is the abuse of executive power. Polk's biggest problem politically is it both of his main generals, zachary taylor in the north, and winfield scott who's going tolead the invasion of central mexico, both of them are whigs. The whigs only ever elected two people president, and both were actually candidates for office. Scott says, i'm not a whig. I've no interest in politics. Why would i want to be present? Who

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