signed the bill of accession of texas, which became the 28th state of the united states , general zachary taylor was ordered to advance to texas and take positions in the document taylor was named the commander of the occupying army in texas in december 1845 . the us congress passed a resolution accepting texas into the federation, only it was already discussed about accepting the status of a sovereign state in congressional documents, it was said about annexing texas annexation - this is the forcible annexation of the territory of another state by the state unilaterally the question is only that such a form of integration was contrary to american laws annexation of independent states from the point of view of international law, annexation was considered one of the types of aggression by the mexican government. such impudence numb and, of course, began to express dissatisfaction, then the president decides to dot all and with the help of weapons and tries to cut the war with mexico. first , he brought an army into the twenty-eighth state of america, then sent ships to the gulf of mexico, provoki

zachary taylor listening to charles f smith grant has a role in the individual that he does, and it's not simply a matter of he was there at the right place at the right time. because if we think about and some of know the roster of the senior commanders in the united states army from the beginning of the war to the end and you start with erwin mcdowell and george mcclellan. right. and you go through the list of john pope and joe hooker and ambrose burns and the list goes on and on. every of them had essentially the same opportunities grant did as senior commander, overall responsibility for to victory. and none of were able to do so. it took grant and the man that he was in some ways those in tangibles of grant. but again i'm going to give credit to a lot of his own decision making that allows him to achieve success. the other commanders mentioned one of our characterizations of the civil war is. the north had to win because they had overwhelm resources, industrial power, population. every commander that controlled the army for grant had access to all that but grants the one who had

american president signed the bill of accession, the 28th state of the united states , general zachary taylor, was ordered to advance to texas and take positions in the document. taylor was named commander of the occupying army in texas in december 1845 . the us congress passed a resolution accepting the texans. the composition of the federation, only it was already talked about accepting the status of a sovereign state in congressional documents , it was said about annexing texas territory of another state in a third-party order, the only question is that such a form of integration was contrary to american laws; us law did not allow the annexation of independent states from the point of view of international law, annexation was considered one of the types of aggression by the mexican government. such impudence became numb and, of course, began to express dissatisfaction, then the president decides to dot everything with the help of weapons and tries to cut the war with mexico. first he entered the twenty-eighth state of america army, then sent ships to the gulf of mexico, provoking mexico to

i read a book in the early 60's written by a general, i believe his name was zachary taylor. at the end of his book he said, we won this war but we are going to have to decide who are we going with, the russians or the chinese. we did not do neither one. to be so dependent on china is -- it absolutely blows my mind. we are a self-sufficient country. how dumb are we to let all this happen? thank you for letting me speak and have a great day. host: what about u.s.-china russian relations after world war ii? guest: thank you for that. i wrote a book about debates about china after world war ii. we hope to china would become an ally and move in our direction. nixon went to china and that was the u.s. and china aligning against the soviet union.

us general zachary taylor received orders to advance to texas and take positions in the document taylor named commander of the occupying army in texas in december 1845. the us congress adopted a resolution on the admission of texas to the federation, only it was already about acceptance as a sovereign state in congressional documents it was said about the annexation of texas annexation - this is the forcible annexation of the territory of another state by the state unilaterally the question is only that this form of integration contradicted the american laws of the united states did not allow the annexation of independent states from the point of view of international law annexation and was considered one of the types of aggression by the mexican government. such impudence became numb and, of course, began to express dissatisfaction, then the president decides to dot everything with the help of weapons and tries to cut the war with mexico. first , he brought an army into the twenty-eighth state of america, then sent ships to the gulf of mexico, provoking mexico to start a war. and when

i read a book in the early 60's written by a general, i believe his name was zachary taylor.the end of his book he said, we won this war but we are going to have to decide who are we going with, the russians or the chinese. we did not do neither one. to be so dependent on china is -- it absolutely blows my mind. we are a self-sufficient country. how dumb are we to let all this happen? thank you for letting me speak and have a great day. host: what about u.s.-china russian relations after world war ii? guest: thank you for that. i wrote a book about debates about china after world war ii. we hope to china would become an ally and move in our direction. nixon went to china and that was the u.s. and china aligning against the soviet union. caller: we were given warnings for quite a while that we would get hurt bad if they got nafta through and it hurt us that. take it very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] host: what about the folks who warned about china in particular the trump administration? guest: i think we are going back to that period of the 9