| Authors: |
Donovan, Jim, 1954-
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) -- Siege, 1836.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012. |
| Description: |
x, 500 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780316053747 0316053740 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: |
Prologue -- The hotspur -- "O! He has gone to Texas" -- "The celebrated desperado" -- "The burly Is begun" -- The Army of the People -- The Battle of Béxar -- "A mere corral and nothing more" -- The Napoleon of the West -- The Backwoodsman -- The road to Béxar -- "Circunvalado" -- "I am besieged" -- "This time you may see some blood" -- "Devlish dark" -- "His Excellency expects that every man will do his duty" -- "That terrible bugle call of death" -- The bleeding country -- "The marrow bone of Texas" -- Last Rites -- Moses Rose and the Line -- Appendix 1. Mexican Army of Operations principal officers -- Appendix 2. Alamo defenders. |
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