The volunteer army that fought the Mexican dictator Santa Anna from 1835 to 1836 was immortalized in the epic battle of the Alamo. Taking arms initially to fight for the restoration of the liberal Mexican constitution of 1824, the volunteers were eventually fighting for outright Texan independence. This book describes and illustrates the group of men who, despite the diversity of their origins, equipment, weaponry and dress, were united in a common cause that reached its culmination in the victory of San Jacinto. The turbulent decade (1836–46) of Texan independence is also covered, and the little-studied army and navy of the Republic of Texas examined.
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ACCORDING TO "BIG FOOT" WALLACE, they were a motley, mixed up crowd, you may be certain - broken down politicians from the 'old States' that somehow had got on the wrong side of the fence, and had been left out in the cold; renegades and refugees from justice, that had 'left their country for their country's good,' and adventurers of all sorts, ready for anything or any enterprise that afforded a reasonable prospect of excitement and plunder. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
auxiliary volunteers, forage cap, fatigue jackets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Antonio, United States, Sam Houston, Rio Grande, Santa Anna, James Grant, Texas Volunteers, Federal Volunteer Army, New Orleans Grays, San Patricio, Texas Rangers, Agua Dulce, Albert Sidney Johnston, Army of the People, Frontier Regiment, Ist Cavalry, Antonio Canales, President Houston, Republic of Texas, Stephen Austin, West Point New!
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ACCORDING TO "BIG FOOT" WALLACE, they were a motley, mixed up crowd, you may be certain - broken down politicians from the 'old States' that somehow had got on the wrong side of the fence, and had been left out in the cold; renegades and refugees from justice, that had 'left their country for their country's good,' and adventurers of all sorts, ready for anything or any enterprise that afforded a reasonable prospect of excitement and plunder. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
auxiliary volunteers, forage cap, fatigue jackets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Antonio, United States, Sam Houston, Rio Grande, Santa Anna, James Grant, Texas Volunteers, Federal Volunteer Army, New Orleans Grays, San Patricio, Texas Rangers, Agua Dulce, Albert Sidney Johnston, Army of the People, Frontier Regiment, Ist Cavalry, Antonio Canales, President Houston, Republic of Texas, Stephen Austin, West Point New!
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- Rio Grande (Rivers of the World) by Raymond Johnson on page 6, and page 22
- The Pacific Ocean (Oceans of the World) by Doreen Gonzales on page 4
- Texas Rangers by Henry on page 34
- The Texas Rangers (Landmark Books #77) by Will Henry on page 34
- North Carolina by Marguerite Schumann in Back Matter
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