The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor, Twelfth President of the United States (Classic Reprint)

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The sudden splendor with which general taylor nas burst upon the nation, has created in the public mind an anxiety, as intense as it is universal, to be come acquainted, not only with the brilliant deeds which have rendered his name so illustrious, but with all the incidents of his life from his youth to his first prominent appearance before the country, as com mander-in-chief of the army, destined to operate against Mexico. It was to satisfy this anxiety more fully, it possible, and in a more durable form than it had yet been'done, that this work has been prepared. The compiler claims for it no other merit than this over the many sketches of this eminent man's life that have pre ceded it. He has labored under much embarrassment in collecting materials for a work claiming even that merit. So little had General Taylor sought public no toriety, that almost his very name was unknown to a large portion of the American people, until the victories of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma revived the recollection of it. Even his heroic defence of Fort.

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