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The uniforms worn by the military in the Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1846. Autographed copy.
Author : Bruce Marshall
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780764306822
The uniforms worn by the military in the Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1846. Autographed copy.
Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0062394320
The official nonfiction companion to HISTORY’s dramatic series Texas Rising (created by the same team that made the ratings record-breaker Hatfields & McCoys): a thrilling new narrative history of the Texas Revolution and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers who patrolled the violent western frontier March 1836: The Republic of Texas, just weeks old, is already near collapse. William Barret Travis and his brave defenders of the Alamo in San Antonio have been slaughtered. Hundreds more Texan soldiers have surrendered at Goliad, only to be marched outside the fortress and executed by order of the ruthless Mexican general Santa Anna, a dictator denying Texans their freedom and liberty. General Sam Houston—a hard-drinking, hot-tempered opportunist—remains in command of a small band of volunteer colonists, mercenaries, and the newly organized Texas Rangers. They are the last hope for Texas to challenge the relentless advance of Santa Anna’s much larger Mexican Army—yet many of them curse Houston, enraged by his decision to retreat across Texas before the advancing enemy. The exhausted, outnumbered rebels will meet their destiny on an empty plain near the Gulf Coast next to the San Jacinto River—and make a stand that determines the fate of the young nation. “Remember the Alamo!” and “Remember Goliad!” will be the battle cries, and the order of the day will echo Travis’s at the Alamo: Victory or death. Acclaimed Texas historian Stephen L. Moore’s new narrative history tells the full, thrilling story of the Texas Revolution from its humble beginnings to its dramatic conclusion, and reveals the contributions of the fabled Texas Rangers—both during the revolution and in the frontier Indian wars that followed.
Author : Joseph Wheelan
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2007-03-07
Category : History
ISBN :
Presents an account of the Mexican War, providing an analysis of its cause, battles, weapons, and outcome.
Author : Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0307475999
The definitive history of the often forgotten U.S.-Mexican War paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world—from Indian fights and Manifest Destiny, to secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. “If one can read only a single book about the Mexican-American War, this is the one to read.” —The New York Review of Books Often overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history.
Author : Thomas Richards, Jr.
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1421437139
Through its wide focus on a diverse array of American political practices and ideologies, Breakaway Americas will appeal to anyone interested in the Jacksonian United States, US politics, American identity, and the unpredictable nature of history.
Author : Anson Jones
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Texas
ISBN :
Author : Roger Brooke Taney
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017251265
The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 1907
Category : County government
ISBN :
Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574410181
Juneteenth Texas reflects the many dimensions of African-American folklore. The personal essays are reminiscences about the past and are written from both black and white perspectives. They are followed by essays which classify and describe different aspects of African-American folk culture in Texas; studies of specific genres of folklore, such as songs and stories; studies of specific performers, such as Lightnin' Hopkins and Manse Lipscomb and of particular folklorists who were important in the collecting of African-American folklore, such as J. Mason Brewer; and a section giving resources for the further study of African Americans in Texas.
Author : John Edward Weems
Publisher :
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Texas
ISBN :