Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Modified American Historical past

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The heartbeat-pounding story of the struggle for Texas by The New York Instances bestselling writer of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.

In March 1836, the Mexican military led by Normal Santa Anna massacred greater than 200 Texians who had been trapped within the Alamo. After 13 days of preventing, American legends Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett died there, together with different People who had moved to Texas searching for a contemporary begin. It was a crushing blow to Texas’s struggle for freedom.
However the story doesn’t finish there. The defeat galvanized the Texian settlers, and beneath Normal Sam Houston’s management they rallied. Six weeks after the Alamo, Houston and his band of settlers defeated Santa Anna’s military in a surprising victory, successful the independence for which so many had died.
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengersrecaptures this pivotal conflict that modified America eternally, and sheds mild on the tightrope all conflict heroes stroll between braveness and calculation. Due to Kilmeade’s storytelling, a brand new technology of readers will keep in mind the Alamo—and acknowledge the lesser identified heroes who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

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