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The Biographies of John Charles Fremont
Hans G. Schantz
ASIN: B0183VF0LG
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 91

Rarely has a character appeared on the American scene of greater color and controversy than John Charles Fremont. Dubbed "The Pathfinder" for having conducted some of the first rigorous scientific explorations of the American west, emigrants used his maps and reports as their guide to Oregon and California. Fremont was instrumental in the military campaigns which secured California for the United States, only to be arrested and court-martialed for mutiny and insubordination. Nominated the young Republican party's first candidate for president, Fremont lost the 1856 election in a bitterly contested campaign. Appointed one of four major-generals at the outbreak of the Civil War, Fremont was placed in command of the Department of the West. Succeeding in holding wavering Missouri for the Union, Lincoln relieved him of his command amid allegations of widespread corruption. Having earned a ...
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