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      Edward Stratemeyer

      The History of Mexican War: For the Liberty of Texas

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       PREFACE

       CHAPTER I THE HOME ON THE FRONTIER

       CHAPTER II THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE DEER

       CHAPTER III A QUARREL AND ITS RESULT

       CHAPTER IV SOMETHING ABOUT THE INDIANS IN TEXAS

       CHAPTER V THE ATTACK ON THE RANCH

       CHAPTER VI POKE STOVER TO THE FRONT

       CHAPTER VII IN AND OUT OF THE BURNING CABIN

       CHAPTER VIII AN UNSUCCESSFUL PURSUIT

       CHAPTER IX BIG FOOT AND THE MISSING PAPERS

       CHAPTER X THE SITUATION IN MEXICO

       CHAPTER XI THE OPENING OF THE WAR

       CHAPTER XII THE MARCH ON SAN ANTONIO

       CHAPTER XIII A FIGHT WITH A PUMA

       CHAPTER XIV THE BATTLE OF CONCEPCION

       CHAPTER XV DAN TURNS THE TABLES

       CHAPTER XVI AFTER A MISSING MUSTANG

       CHAPTER XVII THE GRASS FIGHT, AND WHAT FOLLOWED

       CHAPTER XVIII DAN COMES TO GRIEF

       CHAPTER XIX THE CAVE IN THE RAVINE

       CHAPTER XX FLIGHT AND PURSUIT

       CHAPTER XXI WHAT HAPPENED TO RALPH

       CHAPTER XXII THE ATTACK ON SAN ANTONIO

       CHAPTER XXIII THE SURRENDER OF THE CITY

       CHAPTER XXIV A MIDNIGHT DISCOVERY

       CHAPTER XXV MARCH OF SANTA ANNA INTO TEXAS

       CHAPTER XXVI WILD TURKEYS AND ANOTHER TRAIL

       CHAPTER XXVII THE MEXICAN ARMY AT SAN ANTONIO

       CHAPTER XXVIII WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE MISSION

       CHAPTER XXIX THE FALL OF THE ALAMO

       CHAPTER XXX ESCAPING TO THE RIVER

       CHAPTER XXXI SOMETHING ABOUT GENERAL SAM HOUSTON

       CHAPTER XXXII IN WHICH THE TEXAN ARMY FALLS BACK

       CHAPTER XXXIII THE VICTORY OF SAN JACINTO

       CHAPTER XXXIV BACK TO THE RANCH — CONCLUSION

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      Primarily the struggle of the Texans for freedom did not form a part of our war with Mexico, yet this struggle led up directly to the greater war to follow, and it is probably a fact that, had the people of Texas not at first accomplished their freedom, there would have been no war between the two larger republics.

      The history of Texas and her struggle for liberty is unlike that of any other State in our Union, and it will be found to read more like a romance than a detail of facts. Here was a territory, immense in size, that was little better than a wilderness, a territory gradually becoming settled by Americans, Mexicans, Spaniards, French, and pioneers of other nations, a territory which was the home of the bloodthirsty Comanche and other Indians, and which was overrun with deer, buffalo, and the wild mustang, and which was, at times, the gathering ground for the most noted desperadoes of the southwest.

      This territory formed, with Coahuila, one of the States of Mexico, but the government was a gov ernment in name only, СКАЧАТЬ