![]() ![]() Polk used as the basis for his request for a declaration of war on May 13. In May the Mexicans ambushed one of Taylor's dragoon patrols, an attack that President James K. In March, on orders from Washington, Taylor moved his force to the north bank of the Rio Grande and established Fort Brown opposite the Mexican town of Matamoros, a move that Mexico considered an invasion of her territory. He established his base camp at Corpus Christi by the spring of 1846 it housed nearly half of the United States Army. His unpretentious manner and appearance led troops there to nickname him "Old Rough and Ready." In 1845 Taylor became commander of the force ordered to Texas after annexation. During his last two years in Florida he commanded the forces pursuing the elusive Indians. ![]() ![]() He saw action in the Black Hawk War in 1832 and in Florida in 1837–40 during the Seminole War. Taylor left the army for a few months after the war but returned to fill a series of frontier assignments that lasted for the next thirty years. He joined the army as a lieutenant in 1808 and four years later attracted attention by his defense of Fort Harrison, Indiana, against an Indian attack. Zachary Taylor, United States Army general and president of the United States, was born in Orange County, Virginia, on November 24, 1784, to Richard and Sarah Dabney (Strother) Taylor he grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. ![]()
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