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Lamont Wood
Books by Lamont Wood
Thornton's Luck
How America Almost Lost the Mexican-American War
By Lamont Wood
In April 1846, tensions between the U.S. and Mexico along the disputed border were high. About half of the U.S. Army, then tiny, was camped outside of Matamoros, Mexico, and rumors were flying that the much larger and better outfitted Mexican army was about to undertake efforts to remove the troo...