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U.S. Army general of the Mexican-American War
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Male
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Birth:
(New York City)
Death:
1 September 1847(Ciudad Mier)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Enos D. Hopping (1805 – September 1, 1847) was a brigadier general in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War.
Biography
He was born in 1805 to Jehiel Hopping and Harriet Mead.
A personal and political friend of Secretary of War William L. Marcy, Hopping was appointed a brigadier general in the Regular Army by President James K. Polk on March 3, 1847.
He was commanding a camp of instruction in northern Mexico when he died on September 1, 1847.