Download or read book Goliad s Revenge written by Richard Jensen and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goliad's Revenge By: Richard Jensen Historically accurate, this novel treads its way back to the mid-19th century. Here we find our country embroiled in the tumultuous task of nation building. Texas had just been accepted as the 28th State and to protect it from a displeased Mexican government, General Zachary Taylor had some 3500 American troops guarding the southern border and assaulting important communities south of the Rio Grande. This assignment embodied intervals of both war and peace with an almost always unpredictable outcome. Not surprisingly, these transitional imponderables seemed to intensify nearly every emotion known to man. Our relatively young protagonist, JK, covered the entire gambit of these encounters with uncertain moments of loneliness and despair intermingled with eminent danger and intense fear. While frequently outnumbered, but employing the military genius of Zachary Taylor, JK survived a multitude of battles. Even more surprising, here in the heart of an adversarial country, he found himself deeply in love with a girl that he dreamed of taking home as his wife. Sadly, the ecstasy of this stormy romance was shattered by a cruel deception, and the most hurtful betrayal of a trust that could ever be imagined.
Download or read book The Story of the Filibusters written by James Jeffrey Roche and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirty Years View Or A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years from 1820 to 1850 written by Thomas Hart Benton and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirty Years View Or A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years from 1820 to 1850 Chiefly Taken from the Congress Debates the Private Jpapers of General Jackson and the Speeches of Ex Senator Benton with His Actual View of Men and Affairs written by Thomas Hart Benton and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book By ways of War written by James Jeffrey Roche and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirty years view or A history of the working of the American government for thirty years from 1820 to 1850 chiefly taken from the Congress debates the private papers of General Jackson and 2 Volumes Volume 1 written by Benton, Thomas Hart and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1854-01-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Revolution in Texas written by Chester Newell and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Revolution in Texas’ can be pronounced a clear and rapid narrative of the different events which have attended that piratical outbreak. Taking the story, however, as he tells it, it is quite clear that the revolution was a naked victory of might over right. Outcasts of all kinds obtruded themselves into the province in opposition to the fundamental colonization regulations of the Mexican Government; when they increased and waxed strong, they took up arms without even colourable pretexts, and at last proceeded to open war. Besides an account of the incidents and actors in these scenes, the Texan divine draws a flaming picture of the beauties and advantages of the new state.
Download or read book Thirty Years View or a history of the working of the American Government for thirty years from 1820 to 1850 chiefly taken from the Congress Debates the private papers of General Jackson and the speeches of ex Senator Benton with his actual view of men and affairs With historical notes and illustrations and some notices of eminent deceased contemporaries By a Senator of thirty years i e T H Benton written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirty Years View written by Thomas Hart Benton and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Thirty Years View Vol I of 2 written by Thomas Benton and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Galveston written by Gary Cartwright and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galveston—a small, flat island off the Texas Gulf coast—has seen some of the state's most amazing history and fascinating people. First settled by the Karankawa Indians, long suspected of cannibalism, it was where the stranded Cabeza de Vaca came ashore in the 16th century. Pirate Jean Lafitte used it as a hideout in the early 1800s and both General Sam Houston and General James Long (with his wife, Jane, the “Mother of Texas”) stayed on its shores. More modern notable names on the island include Robert Kleberg and the Moody, Sealy and Kempner families who dominated commerce and society well into the twentieth century. Captured by both sides during the Civil War and the scene of a devastating sea battle, the city flourished during Reconstruction and became a leading port, an exporter of grain and cotton, a terminal for two major railroads, and site of fabulous Victorian buildings—homes, hotels, the Grand Opera House, the Galveston Pavilion (first building in Texas to have electric lights). It was, writes Cartwright, “the largest, bawdiest, and most important city between New Orleans and San Francisco.” This country's worst natural disaster—the Galveston hurricane of 1900—left the city in shambles, with one sixth of its population dead. But Galveston recovered. During Prohibition rum-running and bootlegging flourished; after the repeal, a variety of shady activities earned the city the nickname “The Free State of Galveston.” In recent years Galveston has focused on civic reform and restoration of its valuable architectural and cultural heritage. Over 500 buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and an annual "Dickens on the Strand" festival brings thousands of tourists to the island city each December. Yet Galveston still witnesses colorful incidents and tells stories of descendants of the ruling families, as Cartwright demonstrates with wry humor in a new epilogue written specially for this edition of Galveston. First published in 1991 by Atheneum.
Download or read book Jaded Horses written by Norman Jay Landerman-Moore and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As embers of the Alamo smoldered, the Mexican Army swept across Texas to Goliad where some 350 Texans were slaughtered. In early 1846, The United States declared war with Mexico. Five Tennessee cousins vow to join the fight. Cameron Augustus Moore, narrator of the story, was barely 18 and Cam’s best friend, Andrew Hawkins, called “Hawk”, were selected by lottery to join the fight. With spirits up, anticipations for glory intensified. But time and reality hardened boys into warriors leaning on the nobility and courage of horses which often proved their salvation. This true account chronicles a long dangerous trek to get to war, the war in Mexico and challenge getting home with their horses, ever watchful in sickness riddled camps or, on command, charging into the teeth of battle where they fought, died or triumphed together. Jaded Horses reveals the spirit of man and horse melded together to survive a terrible conflict in an unforgiving land. It is a story of compassion for defeated enemies and devotion for those back home. It testifies of how being valiant and faithful to vows made with a father brings life’s rewards.
Download or read book The U S Mexican War written by Carol Christensen and published by Bay Books (CA). This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the issues, including the concept of manifest destiny, that led to war between the U.S. and Mexico in 1846, the events of the war, and the impact of its outcome.
Download or read book The Civil War and the limits of destruction written by Mark E Neely and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is often portrayed as the most brutal war in America's history, a premonition of twentieth-century slaughter and carnage. In challenging this view, Mark E. Neely, Jr., considers the war's destructiveness in a comparative context, revealing the sense of limits that guided the conduct of American soldiers and statesmen. Neely begins by contrasting Civil War behavior with U.S. soldiers' experiences in the Mexican War of 1846. He examines Price's Raid in Missouri for evidence of deterioration in the restraints imposed by the customs of war; and in a brilliant analysis of Philip Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign, he shows that the actions of U.S. cavalrymen were selective and controlled. The Mexican war of the 1860s between French imperial forces and republicans provided a new yardstick for brutality: Emperor Maximilian's infamous Black Decree threatened captured enemies with execution. Civil War battles, however, paled in comparison with the unrestrained warfare waged against the Plains Indians. Racial beliefs, Neely shows, were a major determinant of wartime behavior. Destructive rhetoric was rampant in the congressional debate over the resolution to avenge the treatment of Union captives at Andersonville by deliberately starving and freezing to death Confederate prisoners of war. Nevertheless, to gauge the events of the war by the ferocity of its language of political hatred is a mistake, Neely argues. The modern overemphasis on violence in Civil War literature has led many scholars to go too far in drawing close analogies with the twentieth century's total war and the grim guerrilla struggles of Vietnam.
Download or read book The World as it Is and as it Has Been written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
