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5) El Alamo
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32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 18 cm.
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Español
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Briefly presents the story of the Alamo and its significance in Texas history.
7) The Alamo
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1 videodisc (approximately 162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tells the story of the historic battle by 185 men against a 7,000-man Mexican army--a battle that ended in the smaller forces' defeat, but lasted long enough to insure the eventual independence of Texas.
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388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Texas historian Stephen L. Moore's Texas Rising, the official companion to the epic History Channel series of the same name, brings to life the violent Texas frontier and the Rangers' heroic deeds during the Texas Revolution.
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272 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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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...
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xi, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
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English
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"The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In Unsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people--white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African...
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