Winfield Scott

Examples of Winfield Scott in the following topics:

• The Election of 1852

  • The election of 1852 was the last election in which the Whig Party nominated a candidate before the party collapsed following Winfield Scott’s loss to Franklin Pierce.
  • As a result, Northern Whigs threw their support behind Mexican-American War hero General Winfield Scott of Virginia, who went on to win the party’s nomination.
  • King won what was at the time one of the nation's largest electoral victories, trouncing Scott by 254 electoral votes to 42.

• The Atlantic Theater

  • His strategy, part of General Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan," required the closure of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of the Confederate coastline, as well as twelve major ports.
  • The Anaconda Plan, or "Scott's Great Snake," was an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states.
  • Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott , the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River in order to split the South.
  • An 1861 cartoon map of the blockade, known as Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan.

• The Battles: 1863–1865

  • Winfield Scott, the commanding general of the U.S.
  • Lincoln adopted the plan, but overruled Scott's warnings that his new army was not ready for an offensive operation in order to satisfy public demand for an immediate attack.

• The Election of 1840

  • The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election; Winfield Scott, another general and a hero of the War of 1812 who was active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838; and Henry Clay, the Whigs' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.

• The Triumph of Congressional Reconstruction

  • Fifth Military District: Texas and Louisiana, under Generals Philip Sheridan and Winfield Scott Hancock

• Johnson's Battle with Congress

  • Fifth Military District: Texas and Louisiana, under Generals Philip Sheridan and Winfield Scott Hancock

• Whigs and Democrats

  • This political cartoon about the 1848 presidential election refers to Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott, the two leading contenders for the Whig Party nomination in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War.

• Confederate Finances

  • Cartoon map illustrating General Winfield Scott's plan to crush the Confederacy economically, 1861

• Naval Actions

  • His strategy, part of the Anaconda Plan of General Winfield Scott, required the closure of 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline and 12 major ports.

• The Mexican–American War, 1846–1848

  • Rather than reinforce Taylor's army for a continued advance, President Polk sent a second army under General Winfield Scott to begin an invasion of the Mexican heartland.
  • On March 9, 1847, Scott performed the first major amphibious landing in U.S. history in preparation for the Siege of Veracruz.
  • Scott then advanced on Mexico City on August 7.
  • On September 14, 1847, Scott entered Mexico City’s central plaza; the city had fallen.