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Sam Houston and the Alamo avengers : the Texas victory that changed American history
- Title
- Sam Houston and the Alamo avengers : the Texas victory that changed American history / Brian Kilmeade.
- Author
- Kilmeade, Brian
- Publication
- [New York] : Sentinel, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- 272 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- March 1836: The story of the Alamo is familiar to most: more than two hundred Texians trapped in an adobe mission, and massacred. Though the rallying cry of "Remember the Alamo" rang across the country, Houston knew it was poor strategy to aggressively retaliate immediately. One month after the massacre, he and his army of underdog Texians soundly defeated Santa Anna's troops in under eighteen minutes at the Battle of San Jacinto, and in doing so won the independence for which so many had died. Kilmeade brings one of the most pivotal moments in American history to life. -- adapted from jacket
- Alternative Title
- Texas victory that changed American history
- Sam Houston & the Alamo avengers
- Subjects
- Governors
- Legislators
- Biographies
- To 1846
- Texas > History > To 1846
- Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876
- Revolution (Texas : 1835-1836)
- History
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
- Texas > San Antonio
- Texas > History > Revolution, 1835-1836
- Siege of The Alamo (San Antonio, Texas : 1836)
- Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) > Siege, 1836
- Governors > Texas > Biography
- Legislators > United States > Biography
- San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Maps on endpapers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: The lessons of battle -- General Jackson's Protégé -- Gone to Texas -- "Come and Take It" -- Concepción -- A Slow Siege at the Alamo -- The Defenders -- Twelve Days of Uncertainty -- The Massacre -- Bring Out the Dead -- Houston Hears the News -- Fort Defiance -- The Texian Exodus -- An Army Assembles -- The Battle at San Jacinto -- "Remember the Alamo!" -- Old Sam Jacinto -- President Sam Houston -- Epilogue: The Founding and the Founders of Texas.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-2931
- ISBN
- 9780525540533
- 0525540539
- 9780525540564 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019022817
- OCLC
- 1104215158
- Author
- Kilmeade, Brian, author.
- Title
- Sam Houston and the Alamo avengers : the Texas victory that changed American history / Brian Kilmeade.
- Publisher
- [New York] : Sentinel, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1846
- Cover Title
- Sam Houston & the Alamo avengers
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kilmeade, Brian, Sam Houston and the Alamo avengers New York : Sentinel, 2019. 9780525540564 (DLC) 2019022818
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-2931