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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed a final assault. The defenders fought valiantly-for their lives and for a free and independent Texas-but in the end, they were all slaughtered. Their ultimate sacrifice inspired the rallying cry "Remember...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows,...
3) The furies
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Newly widowed, Amanda Kent, a brave young woman raised by the Teton Sioux, after witnessing the horrors of war at the Alamo, is indentured to a Mexican officer and longs to return home to Boston and restore her family's legacy.
Author
Language
English
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"William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." — Stephen B. Oates
Three Roads to the Alamois the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the
...11) The Alamo
Author
Publisher
Gunsmoke
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
160 pages : map ; 20 cm
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's sons
Pub. Date
1906.
Physical Desc
v, 205 pages : frontispiece, illustrations
Language
English
Description
The custodian of the Alamo: I The past.-II.The present.-Sister Genevieve.-Juna of the mission de la Conception.-The old priest of San Francisco de la Espada.-Tommy Huntress.-Phillipa, the chili queen.-The red rose of San Jose.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
30 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the March 5, 1836, battle at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, when only 182 Texans fought thousands of Mexican soldiers in an unsuccessful attempt to gain independence from Mexico.
20) Alamo
Author
Series
Publisher
AV² by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 25 cm.
Language
English
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