Texas Fights & Fighters: A Short Account Of The Struggle For Texas Independence

By Cyrus T. Brady

"Texas Fights & Fighters: A Short Account Of The Struggle For Texas Independence" by Cyrus T. Brady is a short history that covers the struggle of the American Texas settlers to win their independence from the Mexican State of General Santa Anna.

Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) was an Episcopal clergyman and historian as well as a novelist. He was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church and was ordained a priest in 1890.

Brady published over 70 novels, all with an accurate historical basis, many of them based on incidents and historical figures in American history. He also published non fiction histories in a series called "Fights And Fighters." He used many primary sources such as diaries, letters, and journals, both published and unpublished, which made him unusual for popular history authors of his time. He also wrote in clear, simple language that made his books popular; unlike the stuffy verbose prose of the professional historian of his day.

This book, "Texas Fights & Fighters: A Short Account Of The Struggle For Texas Independence," deals with the struggle of the American settlers of Texas in their revolution for independence. It is a short account of that struggle, but hits all the high points, including The Alamo, The Goliad Massacre, and the Battle of San Jacinto, where the overwhelming victory of Sam Houston secured the struggle for Texas independence.

A must-read for the student of Texas history. This e-book contains the illustrations Brady used in the original volume.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Maine Book Barn Publishing
• Release date: Oct 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781498905510

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TEXAS FIGHTS & FIGHTERS:

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLE

FOR TEXAS INDEPENDENCE.

BY

CYRUS T. BRADY.

ILLUSTRATED

1902

Table of Contents

Title Page

Texas Fights & Fighters: A Short Account Of The Struggle For Texas Independence

DAVY CROCKETT 1786-1836 | HERO OF THE ALAMO

DAVID CROCKETT | AND THE MOST DESPERATE DEFENSE | IN AMERICAN HISTORY. | CHAPTER I. | A Typical American.

CHAPTER II. | The Lone Star Republic.

SAM HOUSTON 1793-1863

CHAPTER III. | The Mission del Alamo.

THE MISSION DEL ALAMO

JIM BOWIE 1796-1836 | HERO OF THE ALAMO

CHAPTER IV. | The Hundred and Eighty against the Five Thousand.

Davy Crockett: So He Makes A Fine End!

THE WORST OF SANTA ANNA'S MISDEEDS. | CHAPTER V. | The Delay at Fort Defiance.

CHAPTER VI. | The Battle of the Coleta.

CHAPTER VII. | The Massacre at Goliad.

SAM HOUSTON AND FREEDOM | CHAPTER VIII. | Some Characteristics of the Man.

She took the family far over the Allegheny Mountains.

CHAPTER IX. | In the Service of the Texan Republic.

CHAPTER X. | The Runaway Scrape.

CHAPTER XI. | Santa Anna is Trapped.

BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO.

CHAPTER XII. | The Battle of San Jacinto.

ADDITIONAL E-BOOKS FOR INTERESTED READERS.

DAVY CROCKETT 1786-1836

HERO OF THE ALAMO

Additional materials Copyright © by Harry Polizzi and Ann Polizzi 2013.

All rights reserved.

DAVID CROCKETT

AND THE MOST DESPERATE DEFENSE

IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

CHAPTER I.

A Typical American.

"MY DOG

ANDREW JACKSON."

THAT is what, in emphatic entirely consonant with his actions, David Crockett said he would never wear on his collar. And the doughty declaration of individual right following may be taken as indicating what David Crockett really was. It reads well in these days of the Boss and His Slaves——which things are we!

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictate to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels with the whip in his hands, commanding me to Gee-whoa-haw just at his pleasure.

The spelling of the paragraph is not that of its author. In his autobiography, one of the most naive and delightful of books, he takes occasion to defend his orthography by remarking that he despised the way of spelling contrary to nature! It may be said, in passing, that many of his most eminent fellow-citizens and contemporaries shared his contempt for the rules of orthography. In that book he speaks of himself with the utmost frankness; as for instance:

Obscure as I am my name is making a considerable deal of fuss in the world. I can't tell why it is, nor in what it is to end. Go where I will everybody seems anxious to get a peep at me; and it would be hard to tell which would have the advantage if I, and the Government, * and Black Hawk," and a great eternal big caravan of wild varments, were all to be showed at the same time in four different parts of any of the big cities of the nation, I am not so sure that I shouldn't get the most custom of any of the crew!"

[* By the Government he means——and appropriately enough, too——Andrew Jackson, the book being written while Crockett was in Congress.]

A modest man was David, it would appear, and a confident author, too; witness this assertion:

I don't know of anything in my book to be criticized by honorable men. Is it my spelling?——that's not my trade. Is it my grammar?——I hadn't time to learn it and make no pretension to it. Is it in the order and arrangement of my book?——I never wrote one before and never read very many; and of course know mighty little about that. Will it be on authorship?——this I claim and I'll hang on to it like a wax plaster!

Evidently he considered grammar of no more account than spelling, and equally evidently the porous plaster had not been invented when he searched for a clinging simile!

There never was the slightest room for misunderstanding where Crockett was concerned. His character was plainness and simplicity itself. He usually hit the mark at which he aimed, whether with a rifle or not, in life, so clearly and plainly that dispute was impossible. Even the coon up the tree upon which he drew a bead with his famous weapon, the death-dealing Betsy, at once recognized the futility of resistance, and, being for the nonce endowed with speech, with the famous remark, Don't shoot, Colonel, I'll come down, gave up the game. True, Crockett would not be Andrew Jackson's dog, and because he countered some of the President's plans he had to give way——as did nearly everyone else in like circumstances. But nothing less than Old Hickory ——better Old Steel——ever mastered or moved this redoubtable pioneer——unless it was a woman. His was a susceptible heart!

Nowhere but in America would such a career as Crockett's have been possible. With Jackson and Houston he represents a phase of American life, opportunity, and success, peculiar to the time and not to be repeated again. Though he was the least and humblest of the famous trio in both achievement and reputation, he was not unworthy of association with them. And upon the score of manly, lovable qualities he stood first of the three. His famous motto, which he earnestly strove to live up to, was of the very best:

Be sure you're right, then go ahead!

Crockett was born at Limestone, Greene County, Tennessee,