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🗓️ 8 February 2023
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0:00.0 | War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's |
0:10.5 | founding right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased |
0:16.2 | its size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history. |
0:24.0 | Welcome to Key Battles of American History, |
0:26.8 | a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars. |
0:32.8 | Here is your host, James Early. |
0:43.6 | Music your host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to Key Battles of the Mexican-American War. |
0:46.9 | This is your host, James Early, as always. |
0:50.3 | In our last episode, we talked about the common soldier, both on the Mexican side and the American side. |
0:56.4 | And we talked about both volunteers and regular army soldiers. |
1:00.5 | Hope you enjoyed that. |
1:01.9 | But now we're going to go back to the military narrative. |
1:05.1 | And we're going to look at the campaign of General Winfield Scott. |
1:08.6 | We're going to start out in Veracruz and follow him all the way across |
1:13.2 | Mexico right into the heart of Mexico as he tries to take the capital of Mexico City. So here we go. |
1:19.5 | Episode six, we're calling this episode, Winfield Scott's War, and we'll be talking about several |
1:24.0 | key battles along the way. And of course, I've got my buddy, Sean McIver, with me. |
1:29.2 | Sean, how about this? |
1:30.8 | We're ready to look at another general? |
1:32.8 | Yeah, I'm sure this is going to feel like deja vu from you, Mexico, if you're your War of 1812 |
1:36.8 | series. |
1:37.6 | Yeah, really. |
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