
REMEMBER THE ALAMO
The Texas Revolution and the Birth of the Lone Star Republic, 1835-1836By Judith Ann CallowayLength5h 37m
About this audiobook
**Thirteen days. Fewer than two hundred men. One crumbling mission against an army.** They knew they would die — and they stayed anyway.
You know the phrase "Remember the Alamo." You've heard the names Bowie, Crockett, Travis. But the legend has buried the real story — the *why* behind the siege, the brutal choices, the betrayals, and the eighteen minutes at San Jacinto that turned a doomed last stand into a nation. If all you've got is a movie image and a battle cry, you're missing one of the most dramatic and most misunderstood revolutions in American history.
This book gives you the whole thing.
**REMEMBER THE ALAMO: The Texas Revolution and the Birth of the Lone Star Republic, 1835–1836** puts you inside the fight — from the "Come and Take It" cannon at Gonzales to Santa Anna's surrender — told as the gripping, complicated human drama it truly was.
**Inside, you will discover:**
* **WHAT** really happened during the thirteen-day siege of the Alamo — and why the defenders stayed
* **WHO** Bowie, Crockett, and Travis actually were, beyond the legend
* **HOW** Sam Houston won Texas independence at San Jacinto in just eighteen minutes
* **THE TRUTH** about the
Texas Revolution — slavery, the Tejanos, and the Goliad Massacre
* **HOW** "Remember the Alamo" became a battle cry that shaped Texas and American identity
This isn't a dusty monument or a movie myth. It's the real Texas Revolution — heroism and contradiction alike — laid out so you finally understand what happened and why it still matters.
The Alamo fell. The legend was born. Now learn the truth.
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Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Action and Adventure, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
20Chapter 13: The Battle of San Jacinto — Eighteen Minutes That Made Texas
2Author’s Note
21Chapter 14: Santa Anna Captured — The Agreement and Its Consequences
3Prologue: Come and Take It
22Chapter 15: The Republic of Texas — Independence, Recognition, and Governance
4PART ONE: THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION (1820-1835)
23Chapter 16: Annexation — Texas Joins the United States, 1845
5Chapter 1: Stephen F. Austin — American Settlers in Mexican Texas
24PART FIVE: THE PEOPLE OF THE REVOLUTION
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6Chapter 2: Mexico and Texas — Growing Tensions Over Land, Law, and Slavery
25Chapter 17: Jim Bowie — Frontiersman, Slaveholder, and Alamo Hero
7Chapter 3: Santa Anna's Rise — Centralism, the Constitution of 1824, and Revolt
26Chapter 18: Davy Crockett — The Legend and the Man
8Chapter 4: The Battle of Gonzales — The Texas Revolution Begins, October 1835
27Chapter 19: The Tejanos — Mexican Texans in the Texas Revolution
9PART TWO: THE ALAMO (1836)
28Chapter 20: Slaves in the Revolution — Black Texans and the Ambiguous Fight for Freedom
10Chapter 5: The Alamo — History, Layout, and the Mission Turned Fortress
29PART SIX: LEGACIES
11Chapter 6: The Garrison — Bowie, Travis, Crockett, and the Men Who Stayed
30Chapter 21: The Alamo's Meaning — Texas Identity and the Sacred Memory
12Chapter 7: The Siege — Thirteen Days Under Santa Anna's Army
31Chapter 22: The Mexican-American War — Texas, Annexation, and the Road to Conflict
13Chapter 8: The Fall — March 6, 1836, and the Death of the Alamo's Defenders
32Chapter 23: The Texas Myth — History, Fiction, and the Birth of a State's Self-Image
14PART THREE: GOLIAD AND AFTERMATH
33Chapter 24: Remember the Alamo — The Battle Cry in American Culture
15Chapter 9: The Declaration of Independence — The Republic of Texas Is Born
34Epilogue: The Texas Legend
16Chapter 10: The Goliad Massacre — Fannin's Surrender and Santa Anna's Order
35Acknowledgments
17Chapter 11: The Runaway Scrape — The Texas Civilian Exodus
36Selected Bibliography
18Chapter 12: Sam Houston — The Commander and His Strategy
37About the Author
19PART FOUR: SAN JACINTO