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02528aam a2200373 i 4500 001 3992B4CCCBA811ECBD10AFBB20ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220504074621 008 200526s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0525540555 020 $a 9780525540557 020 $a 0525540547 020 $a 9780525540540 035 $a (OCoLC)1174652408 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Kilmeade, Brian. 245 1 $a Sam Houston and the Alamo avengers : $b the Texas victory that changed American history / $c Brian Kilmeade. 264 1 $a New York : $b Sentinel, $c 2020. 300 $a 278 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 19 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-267) and index. 505 $a Prologue : the lessons of battle -- General Jackson's prot婉g婉 -- Gone to Texas -- "Come and take it" -- Concepci婀n -- 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 San Jacinto -- President Sam Houston -- Epilogue : the founding and the founders of Texas -- Afterword : Old Sam and Honest Abe -- Acknowledgments -- For further reading -- Notes -- Image credits -- Index. 520 $a March 1836: The story of the Alamo is familiar to most: more than two hundred Texians trapped in an adobe mission and massacred. Though the rallying cry of "Remember the Alamo" rang across the country, Houston knew it was poor strategy to aggressively retaliate immediately. One month after the massacre, he and his army of underdog Texians soundly defeated Santa Anna's troops in under eighteen minutes at the Battle of San Jacinto, and in doing so won the independence for which so many had died. Kilmeade brings one of the most pivotal moments in American history to life. 541 $d 20220117. 600 1 $a Houston, Sam $d 1793-1863. 651 $a Texas $x Politics and government $y 1836-1846. 651 $a Texas $x History $y Republic, 1836-1846. 651 $a Texas $x History $y 1846-1950. 651 $a Alamo (San Antonio, Tex) $x Siege, 1836. 651 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1845-1861. 651 $a United States $x History $y 1815-1861. 941 $a 2 952 $l SWPB124 $d 20230119011803.0 952 $l YLPC314 $d 20220504075643.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3992B4CCCBA811ECBD10AFBB20ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search