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... areas. Finding a champion in Mirabeau B. Lamar, they supported his presidential candidacy in late 1838.... The newly elected Lamar immediately pushed through an expensive military preparedness program involving... units. The number of military conflicts with Indians increased significantly during the Lamar... changed dramatically when Lamar ordered the forced removal of peaceful Cherokees from the Neches River... with Mexican insurrectionists, Lamar ordered Gen. Thomas J. Rusk to attack the camp of chiefs Duwali