The Mormon Battalion's Manifest Destiny: Expansion and Identity during the Mexican-American War
This thesis examines the experience of the Mormon Battalion, a group of five hundred Mormon soldiers commissioned by President James K. Polk to enlist in the U.S. military and aid in the newly declared war against Mexico in 1846. The war was a result of a belligerent and aggressive form of territori...
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ScholarWorks @ UVM
2015
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| Online Access: | http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/509 http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1508&context=graddis |