Download or read book The Texas Splendid Expendables of 1842 written by Rusty Wolf and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago the Nation of the Republic of Texas, fought an epic struggle for freedom from the tyranny of malicious government. During this struggle, the citizen soldiers of Texas, with determination and improvisation , took the battle for Texas to enemy soil. Their struggle was known as the Mier Expedition. This book is based on the true story of the snake-bitten war campaign the was high in courage, and spirit, but lacked in luck. The trials and tribulations of the Mier Expedition were extraordinary! Hooray for the Spirit of TEXAS! And for the Spirit of the Lord! that is the spark of freedom in everyone! Cheers! for the sacrifice, of the men, of the Mier Expedition and the Splendid Expendables of every generation, the heroes of the race of people known as the Decent! Who never get the recognition they deserve! Book Review: "Important message contained in this short novel. Very interesting. Has now become a permanent part of my book collection. Cannot wait for more works by this author." -- History Buff
Download or read book The Odyssey of Texas Ranger James Callahan written by Joseph Luther and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Callahan entered Texas armed, a quixotic young man enlisted in the Georgia Battalion for the cause of independence. He barely survived the 1836 Battle of Refugio and the Goliad Massacre. Undaunted by the perils of his adopted home, he remained in the line of fire for the next twenty-one years, fighting to protect Texas settlers from Apaches, Comanches, Seminoles, Kickapoos, outlaws, mavericks and the Mexican army. As a Texas Ranger, he rode with the legendary men of Seguin and San Antonio. In 1855, he commanded the punitive expedition into Mexico that bears his name, a fiasco that has been shrouded by mystery and shadowed by controversy ever since. In this first-ever biography, Joseph Luther traces the tragic course of the wayfarer who crossed so much of the Texas frontier and created so much of its story.
Download or read book Soldiers of Misfortune written by Sam W. Haynes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study offers “a new understanding of the human cost of the [Republic of Texas’s] vainglorious attempt to attack Mexico” (Western Historical Quarterly). The Somervell and Mier Expeditions of 1842, culminating in the famous "black bean episode" in which Texas prisoners drew white or black beans to determine who would be executed by their Mexican captors, still capture the public imagination in Texas. But were the Texans really martyrs in a glorious cause, or undisciplined soldiers defying their own government? How did the Mier Expedition affect the border disputes between the Texas Republic and Mexico? What role did Texas President Sam Houston play? In Soldiers of Misfortune, Sam W. Haynes addresses this and other important historical questions. Expertly researched yet accessible and engaging, Haynes’s narrative includes many dramatic excerpts from the diaries and letters of expedition participants./DIV
Download or read book Dare Devils All written by Joseph Milton Nance and published by Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the Mier Expedition of 1841, a mission undertaken in retaliation for Mexican raids on the Texas frontier.
Download or read book The Boy Captive of the Texas Mier Expedition written by Fanny Chambers Gooch Iglehart and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tale of John C.C. Hill's experiences as a thirteen year old boy with the Mier Expedition. Taken down as told to Mrs. Gooch-Inglehart by Hill himself before his death, she also completed research, and includes a source bibliography.
Download or read book The Mier Expedition written by Walter Flavius McCaleb and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an ill-fated expedition and the most disastrous border confrontation between Texas and Mexico. Led by William S. Fisher, a band of about 300 men crossed the Rio Grande and captured the town of Mier on December 23, 1842. The men were captured, escaped, recaptured, marched to Mexico City in 1943. The survivors were released September 14, 1944.
Download or read book Mier Expedition Diary written by Joseph D. McCutchan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few episodes in Texas history have excited more popular interest than the Mier Expedition of 1842. Nineteen-year-old Joseph D. McCutchan was among the 300 Texans who, without the cover of the Lone Star flag, launched their own disastrous invasion across the Rio Grande. McCutchan's diary provides a vivid account of his experience—the Texans' quick dispatch by Mexican troops at the town of Mier, the hardships of a forced march to Mexico City, over twenty months of imprisonment, and the journey back home after release. Although there are other firsthand accounts of the Mier Expedition, McCutchan was the only diarist who followed the Tampico route to Mexico City. His account documents a different experience than that of the main body of prisoners who marched to the national capital by way of Monterrey, Saltillo, and Agua Nueva. Among the last of the prisoners to be freed, McCutchan covers in his journal the whole period of confinement from December 26, 1842, to the final release on September 16, 1844. The McCutchan diary is set apart from other Mier accounts not only by the new information it provides, but also by Joseph Milton Nance's superb editing. Nance is an acknowledged authority on the hostilities between Texas and Mexico during the era of the Texas Republic. He has transcribed, edited, and annotated the diary with characteristic scholarship and painstaking attention to detail.
Download or read book Texan Tells a True Story of the Famous Mier Expedition Into Mexico written by John Rufus Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1915* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel H Walker s Account of the Mier Expedition written by Samuel Hamilton Walker and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Samuel Walker, a Texas Ranger both on the frontier and during the Mexican War.
Download or read book The Mier Expedition written by Walter F. McCaleb and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Dare Devils All written by J. M. Nance and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well researched by former history department chairman, Texas A&M University and edited by noted Texas historian
Download or read book The Writing and Literature of the Texan Mier Expedition 1842 1844 written by James M. Day and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Texian Expedition Against Mier written by Thomas Jefferson Green and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1845, these are the memoirs of General Thomas Green during the expedition to fight the Mexicans at Mier during the Texas Revolution, his time as a prisoner of the Mexicans and his escape from the castle Perote, along with his reflections on the political and probable future relations of Texas, Mexico and the United States.
Download or read book The Prisoners of Perote written by William Preston Stapp and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1842, Private William Preston Stapp and about three hundred other citizens of the Republic of Texas took it upon themselves to invade Mexico. They intended to retaliate for a recent Mexican attack on San Antonio and to humiliate President Sam Houston, who had been hesitant to seek revenge. Stapp provides a closely observed, day-by-day narrative of the disastrous adventure later known as the Mier expedition. While his style might be described as "elegantly restrained" in comparison to the literary excesses of that early Victorian age, Stapp's flair for drama and description makes for colorful reading. In response to the public outrage prompted by the San Antonio incident, Houston issued a presidential proclamation inviting volunteers for a retaliatory expedition across the Rio Grande. After the bloodless "capture" and pillage of two Mexican border towns, he called the volunteers back home. Most were relieved to comply, but some felt compelled to pursue the honor of the Republic further, and the Mier expedition was launched on December 20, 1842. On the day after Christmas, all save a forty-man camp guard were captured outside of Mier, a few miles across the Mexican border. The prisoners faced a brutal forced march to Mexico City. Stapp was one of a large group that escaped along the way, became lost in the mountains, and suffered badly from hunger and thirst before recapture. He survived the notorious Black Bean Episode in which 17 of the 176 returned escapees were shot after drawing black beans in a lottery. The Texans were delivered to Perote Prison near Mexico City in September 1843, where a few of them tunneled to freedom and many more died in captivity. Mexico released the last of the prisoners in 1844, and Stapp was among them. First published in 1845 and later issued in pamphlet form in 1933 by the La Grange Journal, The Prisoners of Perote is a fascinating view of a painful episode in Texas history. The foreword by Joe B. Frantz provides a perspective on the Texas-Mexico relations during this period "when both countries were shaking down and had not yet found their way." He points out that The Prisoners of Perote provides some clues to the reasons behind the inherent tenseness that exists between Texas and Mexico today.
Download or read book Mier Men written by Josephine Harper and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The boy captive of the Texas Mier expedition written by Fanny Chambers Gooch Iglehart and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mier Men written by Harper Josephine and published by Eakin Press. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their ordeal of the Mier Expedition-especially having to draw beans in a lottery for their lives-has captured the imaginations of Texans through the years. An invasion of Mexico by Texian volunteers turned to disaster.
