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Zachary Taylor Research Paper

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In Zachary Taylor’s early life, he lived in Orange County, Va. Taylor was raised on a tobacco plantation outside of Louisville,Ky. He was a descendant of William Brewster. He was born on November 24,1784 in Barboursville, Va. He received only a rudimentary education, but he was well schooled in farming,horsemanship, and using a musket. In 1808 he left home, after he obtained a commision as a first lieutenant in the army. He was in the Black Hawk War, Second Seminole war, the War of 1812, and he was a mexican war hero. He was a national war hero for what he did in the Mexican war. He was also in the War of 1812. He served for four decades in the army. As you can tell he had served in the army for awhile. So now many of us wouldn’t

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