Author: Mrs. Houstoun (Matilda Charlotte)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Texas and the Gulf of Mexico
Author: Mrs. Houstoun (Matilda Charlotte)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Texas and the Gulf of Mexico: Or, Yachting in the New World
Author: Houstoun HoustounPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021913630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explore the beauty and history of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico with this informative travel guide. From remote beaches to bustling cities, Houstoun covers all of the region's top destinations, with tips on the best hotels, restaurants, and attractions to visit along the way. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Texas and the Gulf of Mexico
Author: Mrs. Houstoun (Matilda Charlotte)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas
Author: Kelly F. HimmelPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890968673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Chronicles the conquest of the Karankawas and Tonkawas Indians by white settlers in nineteenth-century Texas.
Attack and Counterattack
Author: Joseph Milton NancePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292736215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 797
Book Description
It is 1842—a dramatic year in the history of Texas-Mexican relations. After five years of uneasy peace, of futile negotiations, of border raids and temporary, unofficial truces, a series of military actions upsets the precarious balance between the two countries. Once more the Mexican Army marches on Texas soil; once more the frontier settlers strengthen their strongholds for defense or gather their belongings for flight. Twice San Antonio falls to Mexican generals; twice the Texans assemble armies for the invasion of Mexico. It is 1842—a year of attack and counterattack. This is the story that Joseph Milton Nance relates, with a definitiveness and immediacy which come from many years of meticulous research. The exciting story of 1842 is a story of emotions which had simmered through the long, insecure years and which now boil out in blustery threats and demands for vengeance. The Texans threaten to march beyond the Sierra Madres and raise their flag at Monterrey; the Mexicans promise to subdue this upstart Texas and to teach its treacherous inhabitants their place. With communications poor and imaginations fertile, rumors magnify chance banditry into military raids, military raids into full-scale invasions. Newspapers incite their readers with superdramatic, intoxicating accounts of the events. Texans and Mexicans alike respond with a kind of madness that has little or no method. Texas solicits volunteers, calls out troops, plans invasions, and assembles her armies, completely disregarding the fact that her treasury is practically empty—there is little money to buy guns. Meanwhile, in Mexico, where gold and silver are needed for other purposes, “invasions” of Texas are launched—but they are only brief forays more suitable for impressive publicity than for permanent gains. Still, the conflicts of threat and retaliation, so often futile, are frequently dignified by idealism, friendship, courage, and determination. Both Mexicans and Texans are fighting and dying for liberty, defending their homes against foreign invaders, establishing and maintaining friendships that cross racial and national boundaries, struggling with conflicting loyalties, and—all the while—striving to wrest a living for themselves and their families from the grudging frontier. Attack and Counterattack, continuing the account which was begun in After San Jacinto, tells from original sources the full story of Texas-Mexican relations from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande. These books examine in great detail and with careful accuracy a period of Texas history that had not heretofore been thoroughly studied and that had seldom been given unbiased treatment. The source materials compiled in the notes and bibliography—particularly the military reports, letters, diaries, contemporary newspapers, and broadsides—will be a valuable tool for any scholar who wishes to study this or related periods.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Unsettled Land
Author: Sam W. HaynesPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541645405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regions The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In Unsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people—white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descent—were upended by extraordinary events over twenty-five years. After the battle of San Jacinto, racial lines snapped taut as a new nation, the Lone Star republic, sought to expel Indians, marginalize Mexicans, and tighten its grip on the enslaved. This is a revelatory and essential new narrative of a major turning point in the history of North America.
Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley of Hartford, Conn
Author: George BrinleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley
Author: George BrinleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Catalogue of the American library of ... George Brinley [by J.H. Trumbull]. (Special ed.).
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Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description