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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...should be saved I may make him a splendid fortune; but if lost, I perish and he is the son of one who died for his country." This boy, then a lad of tender years, was later a member of the Texas legislature, a captain in the United States army, and at one time belonged to Colonel Sidney Johnston's regiment. These letters were sent by couriers who never returned. The distances they had to travel were so great that the Alamo had fallen probably even before they got to their destination. THE DAWN OF BATTLE MORN. It was on the sixth of March, 1836, on a beautiful Sabbath morning at the close of the first week of the month, in the loveliest springtime in Texas, that the Alamo fell. In order to get an intelligent and appreciative understanding of the situation the exercise of a little retrospection is required. When the battle of the Alamo occurred there were but a few thousand people in all that vast domain embraced within the geographical limits of Texas. Louisiana was still but a province, St. Louis but a trading post. There was no Chicago. The iron horse had not yet disturbed the slumbers and reveries of the residents of the numerous peaceful valleys of the United States. The telegraph was unknown. There was no Kansas, no Nebraska, no Dakota, no state of California. Texas was as far removed from American civilization in that day as South Africa is from England at the present time. The nearest settlement worthy the name was two hundred miles from San Antonio. The country was one vast area of prairie and chaparral, the home of the Indian and buffalo, the cayotte and cougar. The Alamo was the strongest fortress in the territory, San Antonio the central post of military operations. It being the strongest of them all any help that...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781152938304
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1152938304
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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