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William Jenkins Worth
March 1, 1794 – May 7, 1849
Born Hudson, New York
Died San Antonio, Texas
Major General, U.S. Army; Mexican–American War — Monterey (September 1846) under Taylor; Chapultepec and Mexico City (September 1847) under Scott
William J. Worth carried Regular Army experience from 1812 into the war with Mexico. At Monterey in September 1846 he directed the western attack that helped force the city’s surrender under Zachary Taylor; in 1847, under Winfield Scott, he fought through the approaches to Mexico City and at Chapultepec — movements dated in Scott’s reports and the War Department’s Mexico campaign papers, not later street-name folklore alone.
Florida Seminole service and postwar Texas department command sit elsewhere. This register lists Monterey and the Mexico City corridor: units, dates, result. Worth died of cholera in San Antonio in 1849. The public-domain Worth portrait on Wikimedia Commons is used here. He is not marked missing.
- Publication
- NN-HERO-1846-010
- Content hash
- 28e13788 a9ac39c2 b04bd602 ebe81f16 0964572a 4d4d7afd e2bd5001 ee9b2e17
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- 0x7b5562 a8e89bc7 106185fd b873c501 5480180f fc28255b 66161d5a 7ba4fcd1 94
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