Chapter 547 Famous American Generals

The Austrian naval fleet set sail again. This time, the destination was not the American-controlled Port of Veracruz, but the Port of Altamira in central Mexico.

Although the Port of Altamira was far inferior to the Port of Veracruz in terms of throughput and infrastructure construction.

But it was the last large port on the East Coast that was still in the hands of Mexico.

In the White House at this time, John Tyler looked much older than before the war, and he was no longer the old man who was still ambitious.

The Austrian army in California was too strong, and Zachary Taylor in the Grande River was so incompetent that he was tripped by a small yellow fever. Winfield and those damn Mexicans were just a bunch of idiots.

The bomb buried by Franz also began to show its power. John Tyler wanted to remedy it, but after taking dozens of ways, he found that he could not suppress the bomb unless he established a dictatorship.

Either trample on the constitution or sell the United States to bankers.

However, doing so would not only betray his ideals, but also make him an enemy of the entire United States.

So he decided to go for broke.

In fact, Stonewall Jackson and "God of War" Robert Lee, who later shone in the American Civil War, worked part-time to repair fences for widows, and worked as an engineer to replace drainage pipes in fortresses.

Thomas Jonathan Jackson lost his father at the age of two and his mother at the age of seven. He lived on his uncle's farm and only attended elementary school for four years.

However, due to his outstanding performance in the police force of Fort Clark, he was recommended by local congressmen at the age of 20 to enter the West Point Military Academy for further studies.

(He saved a congressman twice, cracked a kidnapping case against the congressman's family, and smashed a gang.)

Jackson's background and experience made him show a completely different temperament from the dandies of the same period, which impressed the then US Secretary of War.

He was placed with high hopes and was immediately sent to the most difficult artillery major, but Jackson was a sheriff from the countryside after all, and his classmates looked down on this barbaric and vulgar country bumpkin.

Jackson's country accent, big beard and spelling mistakes always made these dandies laugh.

However, Jackson still went his own way and even refused the funding from congressmen and the Secretary of War, earning his living expenses by building walls for nearby farms.

At the beginning of the war, Jackson also wanted to fight for the United States.

However, at the beginning of the war, everyone thought that the Mexican-American War was just a game to brush military merits, so it was impossible for him to join it without power and influence.

The school rejected Jackson's request to join the war on the grounds that he had not completed his studies.

Jackson himself thought it was nothing. The teachers went to fight in the Mexican-American War, and he could only continue to help people build walls to earn living expenses.

However, because the war was not going well at this time, John Tyler issued a presidential order for these military academy students to join the army. When his classmates were discharged from the army, Jackson brought his own dry food and horses to the Grand River Barracks to serve as a second lieutenant of artillery.

"Don't neglect the future."

-The motto on the Lee family emblem.

Robert Lee was completely different from Jackson. His family had a glorious history. His ancestors had participated in the American Revolutionary War, served as generals, and served as congressmen.

Thanks to his ancestors' blessing, Robert Lee successfully entered the West Point Military Academy after graduating from high school, and then graduated successfully with the second highest score in the school.

However, his life came to an abrupt end. From 182, Lee's life can only be described as miserable.

Because his father was very anti-war, he quarreled with Madison (the fourth president of the United States) in Congress, and then publicly opposed James Monroe (the fifth president of the United States), and even almost dueled with Andrew Jackson (the seventh president of the United States), who was known for his toughness.

Finally, an anti-war uprising was launched in Baltimore, and then he and eleven other anti-war leaders were imprisoned in Baltimore Prison.

At the last moment of his life, Henry Lee (Robert Lee's father) was lynched.

One of the twelve people who were tortured had his head cut off and thrown at the door of the prison, and the remaining eleven were all subjected to inhumane abuse.

According to the description of others:

The mob cut off Henry Lee's nose and vital parts with a sickle. He didn't say a word during the violence, but just glared at those people, showing amazing strength and courage.

Then the mob blinded his eyes with boiling hot oil, and broke his hands and one of his legs.

In the end, all the mobs thought Henry Lee was dead, so they threw his body on the street.

But Henry Lee did not die, but lived for another three years before leaving this "land he loved deeply".

Henry Lee's death was not an end. As his son, Robert Lee naturally had a huge debt.

The transformation from the chosen son to the condemned son made Robert Lee depressed for a time.

No matter what he did, he was not appreciated by others. No matter how well he did, he would be criticized. His efforts and diligence were regarded as incompetence.

This made Robert Lee fall into self-doubt for a time, and finally he came out of the shadow under the persuasion of the old servant at home.

(Turner was a black slave who was knowledgeable about literature and military affairs and was Robert Lee’s mentor and butler.)

In addition, Robert Lee was not a die-hard supporter of slavery. His mother-in-law and mother had freed slaves, taught them to read and write, and even held religious gatherings for them.

These actions were illegal in the United States at the time, but Robert Lee actually acquiesced to this fact.

In 1844, Robert Lee was still doing some dead labor in Fort Lafayette and his camp, repairing stone wall cracks, painting walls, and laying new drain pipes every day.

As a man at the age of 35, he had achieved nothing and had six children to support. He finally got a chance to serve as an examiner at the West Point Military Academy, but the Mexican-American War broke out again.

Robert Lee also wanted to join the war, but was mercilessly ridiculed.

"We are going to fight, not to repair drains."

The US War Department rejected Robert Lee's application. They didn't know that this captain would be one of the greatest generals in American history.

Also because of the tight war, Robert Lee and his engineering battalion received the task of supporting the Grande River front.

Temporary command post of the Grande River military camp.

William Tecumseh Sherman, the master of terror in the future Civil War, threw his military cap to the ground. He had already discovered that the main Mexican force across the river had fled.

"Damn it! There are only a group of blacks left in Fort Albuquerque. Why not attack! Those blacks are not sick, they must have a way to treat them. Instead of letting the soldiers die of illness in the barracks, it is better to fight them!"

The soldiers on the side knew that no one dared to persuade the lieutenant's temper. They even thought that it was good now. Anyway, there was a salary, and the number of Mexican cavalry was getting smaller and smaller. It was almost invisible.

In fact, Sherman came to report to the headquarters again today that the main force of the Mexicans had been transferred, but his rank was too low, and he was not even qualified to meet with the staff.

In the recent attack, Sherman found that the number of cavalry sent by the Mexicans to harass was not only decreasing, but there were even black soldiers among them.

Those blacks were obviously newcomers at a glance, which proved that the defenders of Fort Albuquerque had no soldiers to send.