Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836
The great painting--it is called “Vers la Gloire,” if I remember rightly--reaches from floor to ceiling of the Pantheon in Paris. Across the huge canvas, in a whirlwind of dust and color, sweeps an avalanche of horsemen--cuirassiers, dragoons, lancers, guides, hussars, chasseu...
The great painting--it is called “Vers la Gloire,” if I remember rightly--reaches from floor to ceiling of the Pantheon in Paris. Across the huge canvas, in a whirlwind of dust...
2. Part 2The first of these adventurous spirits who for more than twenty years kept the Spanish and Mexican authorities in a fume of apprehension, was a young Kentuckian named Philip Nol...
3. Part 3Such, then, was the picturesque figure who assumed command of “the Army of the North,” now consisting of eight hundred Americans, one hundred and eighty Mexicans, and three hund...
4. Part 4By the terms of the treaty whereby Spain, in 1819, sold Florida to the United States, the latter agreed to accept the Sabine as its western boundary and make no further claims t...
5. Part 5But it was no part of Tecumseh’s plan or of the British who were behind him to bring on a war at this time, when their preparations were as yet incomplete; so the following morn...
6. Part 6Once set in motion, the machinery of conquest proceeded to pare off slices of Florida with the neatness and despatch of a meat-cutting machine. The plans of the American Governm...
7. Part 7On the morning of March 27, 1814, Jackson’s skirmishers came within sight of the Indian encampment. On a peninsula formed by a horseshoe-like bend of the river, a thousand warri...
8. Part 8Half a mile away the nipa-thatched huts of Qualla Battoo, built amid a thicket of palms on the sandy shores of a cove where a mountain torrent debouched into the sea, seemed to...
9. Part 9While this struggle was in progress, Lieutenants Edson and Tenett, in command of the marines, had surprised the fort in the middle of the town, battered in the gates, and, after...
10. Part 10“Men,” he said, “it’s all up with us. A few more hours and we shall probably all be dead. There’s no use hoping for help, for no force that our friends could send us could cut i...
11. Part 11In fifteen minutes the battle of the San Jacinto was over, and all that was left of Santa Anna’s army of invasion was a panic-stricken mob of fugitives flying blindly across the...
12. Part 12Doctor Whitman instantly saw that, as a result of the incredible ignorance and short-sightedness of the statesmen--or rather, the politicians who paraded as statesmen--at Washin...
13. Part 13Twenty-two centuries or thereabouts ago a Greek soldier of fortune named Xenophon found himself in a most trying and perilous situation. Lured by avarice, adventure, and ambitio...
14. Part 14“Come right ahead, young feller,” drawled the plainsman, as the messenger spurred back to the Mexican lines, his sinister flag streaming behind him. “You’ll find us right here w...
15. Part 15“... I met ’im all over the world, a-doin’ all kinds of things, Like landin’ ’isself with a Gatlin’ gun to talk to them ’eathen kings. * * * * * For there isn’t a job on the top...
16. Part 16In 1846 came the war with Mexico and with it still another opportunity for Perry to add to his reputation. Opportunity seemed, indeed, to be forever hammering at his door--and h...
17. Part 17News is magnified as it travels in the East, and by the time word of the _Pembroke_ incident reached Commander David McDougal, who was cruising in Chinese waters in the sloop of...