Give an explanation of who Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott was?

Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott were Mexican-American Heroes who fought on a war and ran for the presidency as Whigs

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In early 1814, the War Department cleaned house, putting the aged generals of defeat on the shelf and promoting a cadre of younger officers, Scott among them. Three years earlier he had been a disgraced captain serving out his suspension, now he was a brigadier general. In 1812 the average age of an American general had been sixty. Now, suddenly it was reduced to thirty-six, and Scott, only twenty-seven years old, was the youngest of them all.

The strategy might be simple but its execution was full of perils. Two mountain ranges lay between the coast and the capital, and the 280-mile National Highway was defended by a Mexican army far from contemptible. Considerably larger than Scott’s force, its officers had been schooled in their country’s endemic civil wars and some had even used Scott’s manuals to train their soldiers, who were largely peasants accustomed to obeying orders and enduring hardships. They were fighting on home ground, with all its advantages in supply and familiarity. I won’t burden this group with a battle-by-battle narrative of Scott’s epic march. But it should be pointed out that in order to succeed Scott had to win every battle; losing even one would have proved fatal.

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