Philip N George

Cooke, Philip Saint George, was an American military officer(1809--1895). He was graduated at West Point in 1827 and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. In the Mexican war he commanded a regiment in the city of Mexico, and in the Civil War sided with the Union and greatly distinguished himself in...

Excerpt from The Conquest of New Mexico and California: An Historical and Personal NarrativeThe first historical narrative of the Conquests of New Mexico and California, is here offered to the public.They were conquests as much of Nature's most inhospitable wastes, as of those primitive and isolated...

Cover artwork: adapted from 1911 painting by famous Great West artist Charles Russell Hugh Glass (c. 1780–1833) was an American fur trapper and frontiersman noted for his exploits in the American West during the first third of the 19th century. Glass was born in Pennsylvania, to Irish parents. He w...

Hardcover; Near Fine; No Dust Jacket; 393 pp., index, bibliography, fold out map, illustrations, deckled edges, frontis. A near fine unread copy. In the Southwest before the Civil War, few men ranked higher than the cavalryman Philip St. George Cooke in the estimates of his contemporaries. Instrumen...

An 1827 graduate of West Point describes military life in the mid-nineteenth century as commander of the famous "Mormon Battalion" of the U.S. Dragoons, which pulled their wagons over trackless desert to San Diego to rejoin General Kearney in the conquest of California. Commissioned a brigadier gene...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...The pivot squadron halts; as the movement progresses, its leading platoon will slo...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... ninth, "5;" the tenth, "stand fast;" and in the same manner through to th...