Zachary Taylor (nicknamed Rough amd Ready) was an American soldier and the twelfth president of the USA. He was born in 1784 at Orange County, Virginia and died in 1850. He received an appointment to the US army as first lieutenant in 1808. In 1812 he defended Fort Harrison against the Indians. After the long period of comparative peace he served in the Black Hawk war of 1832 and the Seminole war in Florida from 1836 to 1837, there, in December, 1837, he won the battle of Okeechobee. On the annexation of Texas the then general Taylor marched to Rio Grande, Colorado and gained victories at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He was made major-general, and stormed Monterey in September 1846. In the following campaign General Taylor, who had been compelled to detach some of his best troops, was attacked by vastly superior forces under Santa Anna, and gained a brilliant victory at Buena Vista, on February the 22nd to 23rd,1847. The following year the Whigs nominated him as candidate for President over such competitors as Clay and Webster, and he was elected and entered on his duties in 1849. The California question complicated with the absorbing slavery topic was the chief matter in President Taylor's administration; he died before the compromise was completed. Research Zachary Taylor
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