Paul Foos

19th century (3) 19th century history (1) along with the government's tacit acceptance of them (1) American history (2) and political equality (1) book (1) Cox Collection (1) damaging variety of Manifest Destiny. (1) Foos argues (1) Foos shows that the experience of soldiers in the war differed radically from the positive (1) google partial (1) history (5) Latinx Studies (1) Mexican-American War (5) Mexico (4) military history (3) move √ (1) often by looting the Mexican countryside or committing racial and sexual atrocities. Others deserted the army to fight for the enemy or seek employment in the West. These acts (1) patriotic image trumpeted by political and military leaders seeking recruits for a volunteer army. Promised access to land (1) Paul Foos sheds new light on the war and its effect on attitudes toward other races and nationalities that stood in the way of American expansionism.Drawing on wartime diaries and letters not previously examined by scholars (1) read in 2012 (1) read in 2017 (1) seeking to conquer an unfamiliar nation and people. Through an examination of rank-and-file soldiers (1) some soldiers adapted the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny to their own purposes (1) taking for themselves what had been promised (1) the enlistees instead found themselves subjected to unusually harsh discipline and harrowing battle conditions. As a result (1) The Mexican-American War (1846-48) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny (1) translated into a more violent (1) USA (3) war (1)