Opis: A Brief Review of the Career, Character Campaigns of Zachary Taylor (Classic Reprint) - Author Unknown

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At the close of the revolutionary struggle, in the year 1785, he went a second time to Kentucky, to revisit it, to pass his life among the scenes hallowed by his brothers blood. He went as an emigrant, with a wife and three children; of whom the youngest, born in Orange county, Virginia, on the 24th of November, 1784, and then less than a year old, was Zachary Taylor, a true child of the border, reared amid the perils, and privations, and severe labors of every kind which they encountered who, in that day, reclaimed the desert from the barbarian, and founded the institutions of freedom in the depths of the forest.

It was in this hardy school that Taylor acquired the education and qualities, the simple habits and manly virtues, which have, at length, lifted him up to view as one of the renowned men of the world, and commended him to the confidence of twenty millions of American freemen, as worthy to serve them, in the Executive chair, as the representative of their sovereignty. Where is the man to be found more worthy of the honor Did the father, who so anxiously guarded his little family through the dangers of the "Wilderness Road" to Kentucky, or the mother who bore the youngest born in her arms, dream, in the fearful nightwatches of the woodland camp, that the helpless infant, slumbering on its bed of leaves, should, after the long interval of sixty-three years, humble the pride of Mexico at Buena Vista, and return from that field of fame, to rule, three years later, a mighty republic, which, at the early day of that journey, had no constitutional existence No; it was that Providence alone, which foresees and directs the affairs of men, that prepared the extraordinary destiny of the little wanderer; and even President Madison, a relative of the family, when, in 1808, he sent a lieutenant's commission to Zachary, then a young Kentucky farmer, whose elder brother.Lieutenant Taylor, had just died in the army, only deemed that he had secured to the country the devoted service of another member of a patriotic family. Thirty-seven years more were yet to roll, before the eyes of men could be competent to read the horoscope of the young subaltern of the 7th regiment of United States infantry.

Lieutenant Taylor commenced service, under the command of General Wilkinson, at New Orleans; whence, having been prostrated by yellow fever, he was transferred to the Northwest, where he served, under General Harrison, up to the close of the war of 1812. It was in that year he was made a captain, and placed in charge of Fort Harrison, on the Wabash; where, commanding a petty garrison of fifty men, of whom two-thirds, and himself with them, were rendered nearly helpless by fever, (for it was a very unhealthy post,) surrounded and attacked by an overwhelming force of savages, he enjoyed the first opportunity of proving that his fate was a charmed one, and that it was his particular lot to fight, and prevail over, superior numbers. He never has gone into battle, except against the greatest odds: and he has never come out of battle except as a victor. Old Sylla, the famous Roman general, who was always victorious, believed that his prosperity arose from a special luck or good fortune; and he called himself Felix, the Happy or Fortunate. The same surprising success has, heretofore, always marked the career of Taylor; who, however, assumes no surname, but leaves all to his countrymen, who have already decided to call him - not Taylor, the Happy or Fortunate - but Taylor, the next President. We want a man of happy
fortunes to preside over the affairs of the Republic. But let us observe how these happy fortunes began at Fort Harrison.

Defence Of Fort Harrison.

Fort Harrison was a mere stockade or block-house fort, designed for defence against Indians, containing barracks, store-rooms, a guard-house, &c., but without artillery, or an

Szczegóły: A Brief Review of the Career, Character Campaigns of Zachary Taylor (Classic Reprint) - Author Unknown

Nazwa: A Brief Review of the Career, Character Campaigns of Zachary Taylor (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Author Unknown
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331072058
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 22
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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