Tejanos In The 1835 Texas Revolution

Author : L. Lloyd MacDonald
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455615080
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution written by L. Lloyd MacDonald and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Texas historian presents a vividly detailed account of the 1835–36 battle for independence, shining new light on the experiences of Tejano rebels. In the 1820s and ‘30s, thousands of settlers from the United States migrated to Mexican Texas, lured by Mexico’s promise of freedom. But when President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna came to power, he discarded the constitution and established a new centralized government. In 1835 and ‘36, Mexican-born Tejanos and Anglo-born Texans fought side by side to defend their rights against this authoritarian power grab. After Santa Anna silenced decent across Mexico, Texas emerged as the lone province to gain independence. Offering a unique study of the role the Mexican-born revolutionaries played in Texas’s battle for independence, this account examines Mexico from the fifteenth century through the birth of the sovereign nation of Texas in 1836. Drawing heavily on first-person accounts, this detailed history sheds light on the stories and experiences of Tejanos and Texans who endured the fight for liberty. Enhanced by maps and illustrations handcrafted by the author, this volume contributes an important perspective to the ongoing scholarship and debate surrounding the Alamo generation of the 1830s.

Author : L. Lloyd MacDonald
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589806382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution written by L. Lloyd MacDonald and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long after Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, hundreds of hardy frontiersmen from the United States settled in Texas after the Mexican government made them an attractive offer. Fertile land and protection by a fair and stable government was promised to anyone willing to establish a homestead in Texas, and soon more than 25,000 colonists from the United States were in Texas, forging a new life alongside their native-born Mexican neighbors. By 1830, however, Pres. Antonio López de Santa Anna had assumed dictatorial power in Mexico. His policies and those of the new "Centralist" government were enacted to terrify the American colonists (Texians) and Mexicans (Tejanos) who were seeking protection of the rights originally promised to them by the Mexican government. What resulted was the Texas Revolution--the bloody battle for the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto--effectively ending Mexican control of the province and giving rise to the Republic of Texas. Unlike many of its predecessors in the study of the Texas Revolution, this detailed and candid history provides a focused study of the lesser-known frontiersmen and their Mexican allies, along with the women and children they protected. Rich in first-person anecdotes recounting the years leading up to the fight for the Alamo, the days spent within its walls, and its aftermath, this well-informed chronicle pays long-due attention to the often-overlooked contributions by Tejanos as well as the thirty-two volunteers from Gonzales who determinedly sought to defend their rights. Enhanced by maps and illustrations devotedly handcrafted into leather by the author, this volume stands out as a unique examination of the joint struggle of the Mexicans and Americans who sought to overthrow Santa Anna's tyranny in the 1830s.

Author : Roy F. Sullivan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468523406
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Texas Revolution: Tejano Heroes written by Roy F. Sullivan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans are aware that Texas gained its independence from Santa Annas Mexico in the 1840s. Mention of the Alamo evokes the familiar names of heroes like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis. All too often another group of heroes, heroines and patriots who fought and died for the independence of Texas is overlooked. The sacrifices, bravery and valor of that group--the Tejanos, Texans of Hispanic ancestry--are the focus of The Texas Revolution: Tejano Heroes. It was not just at famous battles such as Agua Dulce, Bexar, Goliad, the Alamo and San Jacinto that Tejanos made their mark on Texas history, often giving their lives and fortunes. Long before the arrival of Stephen F. Austin and settlers from the east, Tejanos were fighting for the independence of Tejas or Texas. The first declaration of Texas independence from Spain was issued in April 1813 by Bernardo Guiterrez de Lara. The first, and bloodiest, battle for Texas independence was fought at the battle of the Medina in August 1813. The first formal list of grievances against the Mexican government was issued by several Tejanos, including Juan Seguin and Gaspar Abrego de Flores, in October 1834. Recognition of the courage, abilities and endurance of Tejanos as major emancipators in the Texas Revolution is long overdue, hence this book.

Author : Ruben Rendón Lozano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viva Tejas written by Ruben Rendón Lozano and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chester Newell
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849674444
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Revolution in Texas written by Chester Newell and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Revolution in Texas’ can be pronounced a clear and rapid narrative of the different events which have attended that piratical outbreak. Taking the story, however, as he tells it, it is quite clear that the revolution was a naked victory of might over right. Outcasts of all kinds obtruded themselves into the province in opposition to the fundamental colonization regulations of the Mexican Government; when they increased and waxed strong, they took up arms without even colourable pretexts, and at last proceeded to open war. Besides an account of the incidents and actors in these scenes, the Texan divine draws a flaming picture of the beauties and advantages of the new state.

Author : Edward L. Miller
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603446451
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans and the Texas Revolution written by Edward L. Miller and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Author Edward L. Miller has delved into previously unused or overlooked papers housed in New Orleans to reconstruct a chain of events that set the Crescent City, in many ways, at the center of the Texian fight for independence. Not only did Now Orleans business interests send money and men to Texas in exchange for promises of land, but they also provided newspaper coverage that set the scene for later American annexation of the young republic."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paul D. Lack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Texas Revolutionary Experience written by Paul D. Lack and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh perspective, drawn from exhaustive examination of primary documents (claims records and land documents as well as traditional manuscript collections), portrays the Texans entering their quarrel with Mexico as a fragmented people--individualistic, divided from one community to another by ethnic and racial tensions, and lacking a consensus about the meaning of political changes in Mexico. Paul D. Lack examines, one at a time, the various groups that participated in the Texas Revolution. He concludes that the army was highly politicized, overly democratic and individualistic, and lacking in discipline and respect for property. With the statistical profile of the army he has compiled, Lack puts to rest forever the idea that the Anglo community gave an overwhelming response to the call to arms. He details instead the tensions between army volunteers and the majority of Texans who refused military service.

Author : William Campbell Binkley
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Texas Revolution written by William Campbell Binkley and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 1979 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interpretative study of the Texas Revolution of 1835-36.

Author : Eugene Campbell Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico and Texas, 1821-1835 written by Eugene Campbell Barker and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Holmes Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 written by John Holmes Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The starting place for research on the fledgling Texas republic. It prints several thousand important letters and documents that were printed during the revolutionary era that have never been published before in any form. Includes all letters and documents published between January 1, 1835 up to the inaugual address of Sam Houston as President of the Republic of Texas on October 22, 1836