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Lieut.-General Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army
general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss and
Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active
duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and
most historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time.
Over the course of his fifty-year career, he commanded forces in the War
of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second
Seminole War, and, briefly, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union
strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to defeat the
Confederacy.
A national hero after the Mexican War, he served as military governor of
Mexico City. Such was his stature that, in 1852, the United States Whig
Party passed over its own incumbent President of the United States,
Millard Fillmore, to nominate Scott in the U.S. presidential election. Scott
lost to Democrat Franklin Pierce in the general election, but remained a
popular national figure, receiving a brevet promotion in 1856 to the rank
of lieutenant general, becoming the first American since George
Washington to hold that rank.
Source: Wikipedia
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army
general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss and
Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active
duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and
most historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time.
Over the course of his fifty-year career, he commanded forces in the War
of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second
Seminole War, and, briefly, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union
strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to defeat the
Confederacy.
A national hero after the Mexican War, he served as military governor of
Mexico City. Such was his stature that, in 1852, the United States Whig
Party passed over its own incumbent President of the United States,
Millard Fillmore, to nominate Scott in the U.S. presidential election. Scott
lost to Democrat Franklin Pierce in the general election, but remained a
popular national figure, receiving a brevet promotion in 1856 to the rank
of lieutenant general, becoming the first American since George
Washington to hold that rank.
Source: Wikipedia
Read the book on Winfield Scott. Click on the link
on the right to open up a PDF copy of The Life and
Military Services of Lieut.-General Winfield Scott,
which includes a fascinating look at his involvement
in the Battle of Queenston Heights where Brock
was killed.
on the right to open up a PDF copy of The Life and
Military Services of Lieut.-General Winfield Scott,
which includes a fascinating look at his involvement
in the Battle of Queenston Heights where Brock
was killed.