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Faded Glory : A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now /
Each of the wars fought by Texans spawned the creation of scores of military sites across the state, from the lonely frontier outpost at Adobe Walls to the once-bustling World War II shipyards of Orange. Today, although vestiges of the sites still exist, many are barely discernible, their once-proud...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Faded Glory : |b A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now / |c Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The Mexican War, 1846-1848: Corpus Christi beach -- Thornton's skirmish -- Brazos Santiago -- Fort Brown -- The Indian Wars, 1848-1875: Fort McKavett -- Fort Lancaster -- Battle of Adobe Walls -- The Civil War, 1861-1865: Old Fort Bliss -- Battle of Galveston -- Camp Ford -- Battle of Sabine Pass -- The Spanish-American War, 1898: Menger Hotel -- Camp Mabry -- Camp Wood -- The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920: Downtown El Paso -- Glenn Spring -- Camp Ruidosa -- Camp Holland -- World War I, 1917-1918: USS Texas -- Galveston coastal defenses -- Camp Bowie I -- Camp MacArthur and Rich Field -- World War II, 1941-1945: Fort Clark -- Camp Bowie II -- Avenger Field -- Pecos Army Airfield -- Naval operations in wartime Orange -- Prisoners of war in Texas -- Marfa Army Airfield -- Epilogue: a call for preservation. | |
| 520 | |a Each of the wars fought by Texans spawned the creation of scores of military sites across the state, from the lonely frontier outpost at Adobe Walls to the once-bustling World War II shipyards of Orange. Today, although vestiges of the sites still exist, many are barely discernible, their once-proud martial trappings now faded by time, neglect, the elements and, most of all, public apathy.?In Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley revisit twenty-nine sites-many of them largely forgotten-associated with what w. | ||
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