Military officers surveyed an expanded United States. The United States secured its “Manifest Destiny” in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe ending...
Mapping the Territories
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Army Corps of Topographical Engineers
J.C. Ives Pays a Visit the Grand Canyon
Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives graduated from West Point in 1852 and the following year he was assigned to the storied Army Corps of Topographical...
The Army Corps of Topographical Engineers
The United States secured its “Manifest Destiny” in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe ending the Mexican War. Mexico agreed to give up its claim to...