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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers : The Texas Victory that Changed American History Brian Kilmeade.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [New York, New York] : Sentinel, [2019]Description: 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780525540533
Other title:
  • Sam Houston & the Alamo avengers : the Texas victory that changed American history
  • Texas victory that changed American history
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Sam Houston and the Alamo avengersDDC classification:
  • 976.4/04092 23
LOC classification:
  • F390.H84 K55 2019
Contents:
General Jackson's protégé -- Gone to Texas -- -- "Come and take it" -- Concepción -- A slow siege at the Alamo -- The defenders -- Twelve days of uncertainty -- The massacre -- Bring out the dead -- Houston hears the news -- Fort Defiance -- The Texian exodus -- An army assembles -- The battle at San Jacinto -- "Remember the Alamo!" -- Old Sam Jacinto -- President Sam Houston.
Summary: "[The author] explores hidden aspects of Sam Houston, the first president of Texas, and brings the reader to the scenes of one of the most pivotal moments in American history"-- Provided by publisher.
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Main Main Jones Public Library B HOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3370000080185
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.

General Jackson's protégé -- Gone to Texas -- -- "Come and take it" -- Concepción -- A slow siege at the Alamo -- The defenders -- Twelve days of uncertainty -- The massacre -- Bring out the dead -- Houston hears the news -- Fort Defiance -- The Texian exodus -- An army assembles -- The battle at San Jacinto -- "Remember the Alamo!" -- Old Sam Jacinto -- President Sam Houston.

"[The author] explores hidden aspects of Sam Houston, the first president of Texas, and brings the reader to the scenes of one of the most pivotal moments in American history"-- Provided by publisher.

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