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"We never retreat" : filibustering expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812-1822 /

The term?filibuster? often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century?invasion of foreign lands by private military forces. Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short shrift...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bradley, Ed, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 40.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Philip Nolan: harbinger of the Texas filibustering era
  • The Magee-Gutierrez Expedition: from conception to the taking of La Bahia
  • The Magee-Gutierrez Expedition, part II
  • From John H. Robinson to James Long
  • The 1819 Texas filibuster of James Long
  • James Long and the end of the Texas filibustering era.