Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction richard v. francaviglia xv One Spanish Maritime Charting of the Gulf of Mexico and the California Coast w. michael mathes 1 Two Spanish Military Engineers in the New World before 1750 david buisseret 44 Three Spanish Military Mapping of the Northern Borderlands after 1750 dennis reinhartz 57 Four U.S. Army Military Mapping of the American Southwest during the Nineteenth Century ralph e. ehrenberg 80 Five Henry Washington Benham: A U.S. Army Engineer’s View of the U.S.-Mexican War gerald d. saxon 130 viii u mapping and empire Six Trabajos Desconocidos, Ingenieros Olvidados: Unknown Works and Forgotten Engineers of the Mexican Boundary Commission paula rebert 156 Seven Soldier-Engineers in the Geographic Understanding of the Southwestern Frontier: An Afterthought john r. hébert 185 Contributors 191 Index 193 ...