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Philip Nolan and Texas

Author: Maurine T. Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872440791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description

Philip Nolan and Texas

Author: Maurine T. Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872440791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description

The Man Without a Country and Other Tales

Author: Edward Everett Hale
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434476456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
A collection of short stories by Civil War-era author Hale, including a short fantasy entitled "My Double and How He Undid Me."

We Never Retreat

Author: Edward A. Bradley
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623492610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435

Book Description
The term “filibuster” often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century—invasion of foreign lands by private military forces. Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short shrift in the studies of American-based filibustering, these expeditions were led by colorful men such as Augustus William Magee, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, John Robinson, and James Long. Previous accounts of their activities are brief, lack the appropriate context to fully understand filibustering, and leave gaps in the historiography. Ed Bradley now offers a thorough recounting of filibustering into Spanish Texas framed through the lens of personal and political motives: why American men participated in them and to what extent the US government was either involved in or tolerated them. “We Never Retreat” makes a major contribution by placing these expeditions within the contexts of the Mexican War of Independence and international relations between the United States and Spain.

Philip Nolan's Friends

Author: Edward Everett Hale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502

Book Description

A Republic of Scoundrels

Author: David Head
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639364080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s. We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton; even so, they are often considered American saints, revered for their wisdom and self-sacrificing service to the nation. However, within the Founding Generation lurked many unscrupulous figures—men who violated the era’s expectation of public virtue and advanced their own interests at the expense of others. They were turncoats and traitors, opportunists and con artists, spies, and foreign intriguers. Some of their names are well known: Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr. Others are less notorious now but were no less threatening. There was Charles Lee, the Continental Army general who offered to tell the British how to defeat the Americans, and James Wilkinson, who served fifteen years as a commanding general in the US Army, despite rumors that he spied for Spain and conspired with traitors. The early years of the republic were full of self-interested individuals, sometimes succeeding in their plots, sometimes failing, but always shaping the young nation. A Republic of Scoundrels seeks to re-examine the Founding Generation and replace the hagiography of the Founding Fathers with something more realistic: a picture that embraces the many facets of our nation’s origins.

The Handbook of Texas

Author: Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1176

Book Description
Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.

Cubans in the Confederacy

Author: Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786409761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
The role of Cubans in the American Civil War is seldom appreciated. This work is the first to provide a close look at the often distinguished services they performed. Although Cubans are recorded in the rosters of both Union and Confederate forces, Cuban ties with the Confederacy were particularly strong, partly because Cuban patriots fighting for liberation from Spain tended to identify with the Southern cause as a revolutionary struggle. This work will focus on the biographies of three Cubans who served the Confederate army in the War Between the States. Darryl E. Brock offers a detailed portrait of Jose Agustin Quintero, who served as the South's most effective diplomat. Michel Wendell Stevens writes on Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, who rose to the rank of colonel and served some of the Confederacy's best-known generals. Finally, Richard Hall provides an intimate sketch of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a soldier and spy for the Confederacy who infiltrated (as a double agent) the operations of Northern spymaster Lafayette C. Baker.