Remember The Alamo
The Texas Revolution and the Birth of the Lone Star Republic, 1835-1836By Judith Ann Calloway
Length5h 37m
About this audiobook
Texas Revolution history — the Alamo, Sam Houston, Santa Anna, and the thirteen-day siege that made the Lone Star Republic, 1835-1836. Narrative American military history.
On October 2, 1835, settlers in Gonzales hoisted a homemade flag bearing a brass cannon and four words — COME AND TAKE IT — and opened fire on Mexican troops sent to disarm them. The shot was militarily inconsequential. What it started was not. Within six months, fewer than two hundred men had died inside a crumbling Spanish mission in San Antonio, Sam Houston's army had destroyed Santa Anna's forces in eighteen minutes at San Jacinto, and a new republic had been born from one of the most contested revolutions in North American history.
Historian Judith Ann Calloway traces the full arc from Stephen F. Austin's colonization — twenty thousand Anglo settlers in Mexican Texas on land grants at a quarter of a cent per acre — through the thirteen-day Alamo siege, the Goliad massacre of more than four hundred prisoners, and the eighteen-minute battle that secured Texas independence. Jim Bowie, William Barret Travis, Davy Crockett, Juan Seguin, the Tejano defenders, and the enslaved people whose futures hung on the outcome all take their place in a story that refuses to flatten into simple heroism.
Inside this Texas Revolution history:
The Gonzales cannon — how a small brass cannon lent for protection against raids sparked a continental revolution (Chapter 4)
The thirteen-day Alamo siege — Travis's "Victory or Death" letter of February 24, 1836, and the predawn assault of March 6 that killed every defender (Chapters 5-7)
The garrison's real men — Travis at twenty-six, Bowie ill on his cot, Crockett arriving as a private adventurer — and why the de la Pena diary still divides historians (Chapter 6)
The Goliad massacre — Santa Anna's order to execute more than four hundred prisoners and the battle cries it created for San Jacinto (Chapter 10)
Eighteen minutes at San Jacinto — how Houston's volunteers destroyed Santa Anna's force and captured the general himself (Chapter 13)
The Tejanos and the enslaved — the revolution's explicit defense of slavery and the broken promises that followed independence (Chapters 19-20)
The Alamo's contested memory — the curved facade added in 1850, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the ongoing fight over whose story the shrine tells (Chapters 21, 23)
Texas Revolution history that honors the Alamo's defenders while honestly examining their cause — a stand against tyranny that was also a defense of slavery, a heroic last stand that culminated a decade of calculated demographic advance into Mexican territory.
For readers of S. C. Gwynne's EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON and David Grann's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length5 hrs 37 mins
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Table of contents
1Introduction
2Author’s Note
3Prologue: Come and Take It
4PART ONE: THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION (1820-1835)
5Chapter 1: Stephen F. Austin — American Settlers in Mexican Texas
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6Chapter 2: Mexico and Texas — Growing Tensions Over Land, Law, and Slavery
7Chapter 3: Santa Anna's Rise — Centralism, the Constitution of 1824, and Revolt
8Chapter 4: The Battle of Gonzales — The Texas Revolution Begins, October 1835
9PART TWO: THE ALAMO (1836)
10Chapter 5: The Alamo — History, Layout, and the Mission Turned Fortress
11Chapter 6: The Garrison — Bowie, Travis, Crockett, and the Men Who Stayed
12Chapter 7: The Siege — Thirteen Days Under Santa Anna's Army
13Chapter 8: The Fall — March 6, 1836, and the Death of the Alamo's Defenders
14PART THREE: GOLIAD AND AFTERMATH
15Chapter 9: The Declaration of Independence — The Republic of Texas Is Born
16Chapter 10: The Goliad Massacre — Fannin's Surrender and Santa Anna's Order
17Chapter 11: The Runaway Scrape — The Texas Civilian Exodus
18Chapter 12: Sam Houston — The Commander and His Strategy
19PART FOUR: SAN JACINTO
20Chapter 13: The Battle of San Jacinto — Eighteen Minutes That Made Texas
21Chapter 14: Santa Anna Captured — The Agreement and Its Consequences
22Chapter 15: The Republic of Texas — Independence, Recognition, and Governance
23Chapter 16: Annexation — Texas Joins the United States, 1845
24PART FIVE: THE PEOPLE OF THE REVOLUTION
25Chapter 17: Jim Bowie — Frontiersman, Slaveholder, and Alamo Hero
26Chapter 18: Davy Crockett — The Legend and the Man
27Chapter 19: The Tejanos — Mexican Texans in the Texas Revolution
28Chapter 20: Slaves in the Revolution — Black Texans and the Ambiguous Fight for Freedom
29PART SIX: LEGACIES
30Chapter 21: The Alamo's Meaning — Texas Identity and the Sacred Memory
31Chapter 22: The Mexican-American War — Texas, Annexation, and the Road to Conflict
32Chapter 23: The Texas Myth — History, Fiction, and the Birth of a State's Self-Image
33Chapter 24: Remember the Alamo — The Battle Cry in American Culture
34Epilogue: The Texas Legend
35Acknowledgments
36Selected Bibliography
37About the Author
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