Download A Perfect Gibraltar: The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846 - Campaigns and Commanders Series AudioBook Free
For three days in the fall of 1846, US and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the Northern Mexican town, known because of its towering mountains and luxurious landscapes, into one of the 19th century's most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier Basic Zachary Taylor, graduates of the united states Military Academy experienced a city almost properly guarded by mountains, a river, and an enormous plain. Monterrey's ideal defensive position inspired more than one All of us soldier to call metropolis "a perfect Gibraltar". Chris D. Dishman conveys in a vivid narrative the intensity and dilemma of the Fight of Monterrey, which proclaimed the very first time US troops involved in prolonged metropolitan combat. Basic Taylor engineered one of the army's first wars of maneuver at Monterrey by mailing the majority of his troops up against the weakest part of the city, and embedded press reporters composed eyewitness accounts of the action for readers back in the Says. Dishman interweaves descriptions of troop maneuvers and clashes between systems using pistols and rifles with accounts of hand-to-hand battle involving edged weapons, stones, clubs, and bare hands.
