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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers : The Texas victory that changed American history / Brian Kilmeade.

Summary:

In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in a tiny adobe mission in San Antonio for thirteen days. American legends Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett died there, along with other Americans who had moved to Texas looking for a fresh start. The defeat galvanized the surviving Texians. Under General Sam Houston, a maverick with a rocky past, the tiny army of settlers rallied - only to retreat time and time again. Having learned from the bloody battles that characterized his past, Houston knew it was poor strategy to aggressively retaliate. He held off until just six weeks after the massacre, when he and his army of underdog Texians soundly defeated Santa Anna's army in under eighteen minutes at the Battle of San Jacinto, and in doing so won the independence for which so many had died.

Record details

ISBN: 9780525540533
ISBN: 0525540539
Physical Description: 272 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: [New York] : Sentinel, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (245-260) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.