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5) From sea to shining sea: from the War of 1812 to the Mexican War, the saga of America's expansion
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A look at the times and people of a new democratic government challenged with survival by pirates, wars with England and Mexico, and governing new lands.
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Patriot, traitor, general, spy: James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction. Brilliant and precocious, at age twenty he was both the youngest general in the revolutionary Continental Army, and privy to the Conway cabal to oust Washington from command. He was Benedict Arnold's aide, but the first to reveal Arnold's treachery. By 38, he was the senior general in the United States army--and had turned traitor himself. Wilkinson's audacious career...
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"Presents the biography of Emory Upton (1839-1881), a Civil War hero and military reformer. A rising star in the Union army, Upton commanded artillery, infantry, and cavalry organizations. After the war he toiled to update and reform the organization structure and tactics of the army."--Provided by publisher.