Easton Press: SAN ANTONIO TEXAS: SIEGE OF ALAMO: BOWIE: SANTA ANNA: MEXICO

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Lon Tinkle's "13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo," a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the LIBRARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY series, published in 1987. Bound in scarlet red leather, the books have paper end leaves, satin book markers, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in Near FINE condition. The Siege of the Alamo took place from February 23---March 6, 1836. Mexican troops under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna entered San Antonio and surrounded the Alamo Mision. The Alamo was defended by a small force of Texans led by William Barrett Travis and James Bowie and included Davey Crockett. Santa Anna offered them one last chance to surrender but Travis replied by opening fire on the Mexican forces. The morning assault on March almost all the defenders were killed, although several civilian survived. The Alamo had been designed to withstand an attack by native tribes but not an organized army. The walls surrounding the three acres were 2.75 feet thick but after 13 days, the Mexican army's superior numbers eventually overwhelmed the Texans. Travis was still in his twenties, while James Bowie was forty years old and held a title to almost a million acres of Texas land. There had been in Texas since 1800 a long parade of Anglo-Americans: first, adventurers, horse dealers, Lafitte's pirates, idealists, thieves, and the, after Stephen F. Austin started colonization, frontiersmen, doctors, lawyers, engineers, merchants--men who had come independently for whatever gain or fate awaited them. While Davy Crockett and the other Alamo men watched the exodus of townsfolk and shook their heads, William B. Travis set about asking himself how to defend the entire city when he did not have enough troops to even man its mission fort. The Alamo had been abandoned as a mission in 1793. Founded in 1718 by Franciscan friars as part of Spain's attempt to bring Christianity and civilization to the Indian, it had flourished and a large chapel was built in 1744. By 1793 when the friars left, only forty-three Indian converts could be found. General Santa anna had prepared his entrance into Texas. He planned to execute, he said, all leaders of the revolution. confiscate Texas property to pay for the expense of the war, drive all participants in the uprising from the proine, remove all nonparticipants into the interior of Mexico, treat as pirates and execute any Americans who had come into Texas as part of the volunteer armed forces. The Texas army was captured, lined up, and shot. On March 6, all the bodies at the Alamo had been burned. Grease and oil had been used to soak the bodies. But Travois, Bowie, Crockett, Bonham and others were to become supreme examples. It was a victory for Santa Anna and he took the Texas flag to prove it! The Mexicans took almost everything they could lay their hands on, incling Davy Crockett's diary, which was found in General Castrillon's trunk in San Jacinto. But looting was slight consolation for the loss of 1,500 men. About fifteen women and children were spared. Jim Bowie's slave boy, Sam, was released, as was Travis's Joe. 255 pages. I offer combined shipping.

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