The Mexican National Army, 1822-1852 Paperback / softback
by William A. DePalo
Part of the Texas A&M University Military History Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
The army of thirty-five thousand that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and other military remuneration.
Overwhelmed with internal threats such as Indian skirmishes and peasant uprisings, this poorly motivated, ill-trained army seldom enjoyed the respite, resources, or direction necessary to overcome challenges to territorial sovereignty posed by Spain, France, Texas, and the United States during Mexico's first three decades of nationhood.
William A. DePalo, Jr., studies the birth and tumultuous adolescence of the Mexican National Army and examines how regional, social, political, and economic factors ate away at its institutional framework and on the Mexican government's attempts at military reform, causing Mexico to eventually lose nearly one-half of its national territory.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:292 pages, 4 maps, bibliography, index
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2004
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- ISBN:9781585443970
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:292 pages, 4 maps, bibliography, index
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9781585443970
