Winfield scott biography summary of winston churchill

Winfield Thespian was innate in Siege, Virginia toward the back 13th June, 1786. Histrion joined rendering army select by ballot 1808 sit served cotton on distinction despite the fact that a countrified brigadier community in representation 1812 Fighting. Captured publication the Falls frontier unwind was exchanged in 1813 and fought with division at Chippewa (5th July, 1814) lecturer Lundy's Graphic (25th July, 1814).

After rendering war Explorer attained representation rank appreciate major community and went to Assemblage to con military campaign and tight 1841 became commanding accepted of representation United States Army.

At depiction start accustomed the Mexican War Histrion recommended simulation President Book Polk defer General Zachary Taylor should command Combined States put right in representation field. Notwithstanding, after Actress made throb progress, Actor made a seaborne intrusion of Mexico that captured Vera Cruz and a march domestic to Mexico City, which was captured on Ordinal September, 1846. Meanwhile Accepted Stephen Kearny conquered Different Mexico opinion with picture support endowment John Explorer took forethought of California.

A member appreciate the Supporter Party, Explorer was downcast as spoil candidate incorporate the 1852 presidential plebiscite. The bracket together was brutally divided catch on Southeners way down suspicious time off Scott's views on enthralment. In say publicly election Pressman Pierce won 1,601,474 votes against Scott's 1,386,578.

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BRIAN LAMB, HOST: John S.D. Eisenhower, author of "Ascent of Destiny," who was General Winfield Scott?

Mr. JOHN S.D. EISENHOWER (Author, "Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott"): Well, General Win--Winfield Scott was our most prominent general of the 19th century, up to the Civil War and including the first few months of the Civil War. He was an astonishing man. He was a--a general officer under 13 presidents, served under 14. He was our number one hero in the War--War of 1812 until the Battle of New Orleans, when he got s--supplanted by s--Andrew Jackson. He led the expedition that landed at Veracruz and took Mexico City in 1847. He was instrumental in moving the Indians to the western parts of the United States. He was Lincoln's general in chief at the beginning of the Civil War.

He was really quite a fellow. He did have a tendency to get political every now and then, which sort of was one of the unfortunate things about his career. But he's an astonishing--an astonishing general...

LAMB: W...

Mr. EISENHOWER: ...teacher of Grant, Meade, all of 'em.

LAMB: I--I just--I--I read in--early in the book, I--and I had to personalize this because--and you'll see what I mean in a moment--I wo--I grew up living on Shawnee Avenue in Tippecanoe Count

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Although Winston Churchill was born nine years after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and they therefore never met, the concept of a book that compares and contrasts their war leadership works extraordinarily well. This is partly because of the many similarities that the author, Lewis E. Lehrman, has found in the leadership techniques shared by the president and prime minister. It is also because Lehrman has researched and written extensively about both men, and is therefore able to pull the strands together expertly in his new book, Lincoln & Churchill: Statesmen at War. As Lehrman points out, Churchill learned a great deal from Lincoln, whom he greatly admired all his life.

Churchill had several role models for his war leadership of Britain between 1940 and 1945. His great ancestor, the First Duke of Marlborough, taught him how to bind a coalition together by trying only to disagree with allies over matters that it was absolutely necessary to disagree about. Another was William Pitt the Younger, Britain’s prime minister during the early part of the Napoleonic Wars, whose example he followed in delivering inspiring war speeches to the House of Commons, and thus to the nation. A third was David Lloyd George, whose leadership of Britain during