02493cam a2200325 4500 759684970 TxAuBib 20210126120000.0 200526s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780525540557 pbk. $9.99 0525540555 pbk. $9.99 (OCoLC)1174652408 UKMGB eng rda UKMGB OCLCO BDX IH5 OCLCF TDS CLE OCL TxGR TxAuBib Kilmeade, Brian, author. Sam Houston and the Alamo avengers [Book] : the Texas victory that changed American history / Brian Kilmeade. New York : Sentinel, 2020. 278 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue : the lessons of battle -- 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 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. 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. 20210126. Houston, Sam 1793-1863. Alamo (San Antonio, Tex) Siege, 1836. Texas Politics and government 1836-1846. Texas History Republic, 1836-1846. Texas History 1846-1950. United States Politics and government 1845-1861. United States History 1815-1861. RV8