In 1846, Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny’s “Army of the West” reached Old Town San Diego after marching 1,912 miles from Fort Leavenworth in Kansas to help bring New Mexico and California under ...

Winston Groom recounts General Stephen Watts Kearney's command of 2,000 American soldiers who marched from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to California in 1846. General Kearney was under orders from ...

Yet it sums up what the book is really about — not just Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny’s march from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Southern California (where he played a pivotal role in taking U.S ...

Book review: Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847, ... Stephen Watts Kearny, who led a U.S. Army incursion into New Mexico territory and then on to California; ...

In "Kearny's March," Winston Groom presents a big canvas: the near doubling of the United States of America in a few short years by an almost laughably small number of men and women. The book's ...

On the day after Congress declared war on Mexico, President James K. Polk directed Col. Stephen Kearny to lead the Army of the West, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., down ...

A number of first-hand accounts exist describing Gen. Stephen W. Kearny’s march with the Army of the West to conquer Santa Fe at the beginning of the Mexican-American War the ...