The Alamo
The Battle for Texas
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2009
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-60413-056-0 (ISBN)
Description
On February 23, 1836, general and dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and a Mexican force of more than 2,000 men launched an assault against Colonel William B. Travis of Texas, his army of 155 men, and 15 civilians who were living in the fort known as the Alamo. The Texans, who were reinforced by 32 men by March 1, withstood the Mexican army until March 6. That day, the 187 Texan defenders perished in the hand-to-hand combat, including American frontiersmen Davy Crockett and James Bowie, and 600 from the Mexican army were killed as well. Only the civilians survived. At the last battle of the Texas War, the Battle of San Jacinto, General Santa Anna was defeated, and the battle cry 'Remember the Alamo!' could be heard being shouted by the Texan army. ""The Alamo"" examines this heroic episode in the Texas War of Independence against Mexico.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Broomall
United States
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 12 to 17 years
Illustrations
full-colour & black-&-white photographs, bibliographical sidebars, excerpts from primary source documents, chronology, timeline, bibliography, further reading, footnotes, index
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60413-056-0 (9781604130560)
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Person
Shane Mountjoy lives in York, Nebraska, where he is associate professor of history at York College. He holds an A.A. from York College, a B.A. from Lubbock Christian University, an M.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Mountjoy has written and edited more than 10 books, including Philadelphia and St. Augustine in the Chelsea House series Colonial Settlements in America.