General Scott
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in nineteenth-century American military history can learn about General Scott's life and the Mexican-American War
- Students studying the military system and generals before the American Civil War can use it as character background
- Readers who need free English public-domain historical sources can download the original for comparison with other biographies
- General history enthusiasts who enjoy military biographies and are interested in command and strategic decisions
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking a Chinese edition or a modern scholarly biography: this is an old English public-domain work with no translation
- Serious researchers who want the latest historiography and full annotations will need to find a modern authoritative biography
- General casual readers with little interest in military history or American historical context will find the book demanding
Reading tips
- Start with a chronology of Scott's life or an encyclopedia entry to establish a timeline before entering the main text, so as to avoid confusing people and battles
- Focus on the chapters on the Mexican-American War and his tenure as general-in-chief, and read them alongside relevant battle maps
- Mark judgments in the book that reflect the prejudices of its era and check them against modern works on American military history
- Read the original English with a dictionary or bilingual reference tools, and note the archaic expressions in nineteenth-century military terminology
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Marcus Joseph Wright (1831–1922) was an American soldier and military historian. He embarked on a military career early in life and served in the Confederate army during the American Civil War, an experience that gave him a lasting interest in war records and military figures. After the war he turned his energies to organizing historical sources and writing biography, and he took part in compiling Tennessee's war records, leaving later scholars relatively primary material for studying the state's military operations in the Civil War. His representative work, General Scott, centers on Winfield Scott and recounts the military career of this American general, reflecting his plain, fact-oriented style of writing. Wright's works generally concern military and political figures and local wartime documents, combining the preservation of sources with biographical narrative. Because public information is limited, his early education, official posts, and scholarly connections cannot be described in detail, yet his compilations remain a reference point for students of American military history.
