Cavalry Charger
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- Joined
- Jan 24, 2017
I have to be honest and say I hadn't given much thought before to who U.S. Grant's role models might have been until I began to read Brook D. Simpson's biography on Grant. When I did, it suddenly became very clear to me.
Zachary Taylor was a big influence on Grant. So was Winfield Scott.
Grant is impressed with Zachary Taylor’s confidence under fire and sees this as a valuable, if rare, quality. He also takes notice that Taylor is not a stickler in relation to regulation uniforms and parades. It seems being impressed by these qualities, Grant in many ways sought to emulate them in his later career.
The formal capitulation of the Mexicans at Vera Cruz under Winfield Scott plays out like so many of Grant’s later moments of enemy surrender where a level of magnanimity is shown to the defeated enemy. No taunts or jeering, and a strict policy put into place to show respect to those now under occupation.
Out of the two Commanders, Taylor and Scott, which had the greatest influence?
Zachary Taylor was a big influence on Grant. So was Winfield Scott.
Grant is impressed with Zachary Taylor’s confidence under fire and sees this as a valuable, if rare, quality. He also takes notice that Taylor is not a stickler in relation to regulation uniforms and parades. It seems being impressed by these qualities, Grant in many ways sought to emulate them in his later career.
The formal capitulation of the Mexicans at Vera Cruz under Winfield Scott plays out like so many of Grant’s later moments of enemy surrender where a level of magnanimity is shown to the defeated enemy. No taunts or jeering, and a strict policy put into place to show respect to those now under occupation.
Out of the two Commanders, Taylor and Scott, which had the greatest influence?