Come And Take It (Paperback)
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Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. Come and Take ItA Complete Chronicle of the Texas Revolution, 1832-1836 In 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain and inherited a vast, nearly empty northern province called Texas. Desperate to populate and defend it, the new government invited American settlers under the empresario system - granting generous land in exchange for loyalty, Catholic conversion, and a promise to obey Mexican law. Stephen F. Austin brought thousands of families who transformed the wilderness into prosperous cotton farms. But the settlers and their government were on a collision course. By 1830, Anglo-Americans outnumbered Mexicans in Texas, alarming officials in Mexico City. The Law of April 6, 1830 banned further American immigration, imposed customs duties, and planted military garrisons throughout the territory. When commander Juan Bradburn began enforcing these laws with particular harshness at Anahuac in 1832 - arresting lawyers and seizing property - settlers took up arms. They won, but called themselves federalists defending the Constitution of 1824, not revolutionaries. That pretense collapsed when Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna scrapped the constitution entirely in 1834 and declared himself dictator. He crushed the state of Zacatecas with brutal force, sending an unmistakable message. When Austin - who had spent two years in a Mexico City prison trying to win Texas statehood through diplomacy - returned home in 1835 and said "War is our only resource," the last voice for patience had gone silent. On October 2, 1835, settlers at Gonzales refused to surrender a small cannon to Mexican dragoons, raised a flag reading Come and Take It, and opened fire. In weeks, the Texian volunteer army - Anglo settlers fighting alongside Tejano patriots like Juan Seguin - drove every Mexican garrison from the territory and captured San Antonio in five days of brutal house-to-house combat. Santa Anna responded with an army of six thousand. On March 6, 1836 - four days after Texas declared independence - his forces stormed the Alamo and killed all 189 defenders, including William Barret Travis, Jim Bowie, and David Crockett. Three weeks later, he ordered the execution of nearly 400 Texian prisoners at Goliad. Texas appeared finished. General Sam Houston refused to stop retreating. For six weeks he absorbed the fury of his own men, the panic of fleeing civilians, and the demands of a government in flight - buying time to forge a real army. On April 21, 1836, at San Jacinto, he attacked Santa Anna's camp in the mid-afternoon, when the Mexican forces were resting. The battle lasted eighteen minutes. Shouting "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!", the Texians killed 630 soldiers and captured 730 more. Santa Anna himself was caught the next morning hiding in the grass, dressed as a private. The Treaties of Velasco ended the war and secured Texas independence. Nine years later, annexation to the United States triggered the Mexican-American War - which transferred half of Mexico's remaining territory to the US and defined the modern map of North America. The Texas Revolution, this chronicle argues, was not merely a border skirmish. It was the opening act of a continental transformation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
N° de ref. del artículo 9798196681998
- Título
- Come And Take It (Paperback)
- Autor
- Richard Bryan Autry
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798196681998
A Complete Chronicle of the Texas Revolution, 1832–1836
In 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain and inherited a vast, nearly empty northern province called Texas. Desperate to populate and defend it, the new government invited American settlers under the empresario system — granting generous land in exchange for loyalty, Catholic conversion, and a promise to obey Mexican law. Stephen F. Austin brought thousands of families who transformed the wilderness into prosperous cotton farms. But the settlers and their government were on a collision course.
By 1830, Anglo-Americans outnumbered Mexicans in Texas, alarming officials in Mexico City. The Law of April 6, 1830 banned further American immigration, imposed customs duties, and planted military garrisons throughout the territory. When commander Juan Bradburn began enforcing these laws with particular harshness at Anahuac in 1832 — arresting lawyers and seizing property — settlers took up arms. They won, but called themselves federalists defending the Constitution of 1824, not revolutionaries.
That pretense collapsed when Antonio López de Santa Anna scrapped the constitution entirely in 1834 and declared himself dictator. He crushed the state of Zacatecas with brutal force, sending an unmistakable message. When Austin — who had spent two years in a Mexico City prison trying to win Texas statehood through diplomacy — returned home in 1835 and said "War is our only resource," the last voice for patience had gone silent.
On October 2, 1835, settlers at Gonzales refused to surrender a small cannon to Mexican dragoons, raised a flag reading Come and Take It, and opened fire. In weeks, the Texian volunteer army — Anglo settlers fighting alongside Tejano patriots like Juan Seguín — drove every Mexican garrison from the territory and captured San Antonio in five days of brutal house-to-house combat.
Santa Anna responded with an army of six thousand. On March 6, 1836 — four days after Texas declared independence — his forces stormed the Alamo and killed all 189 defenders, including William Barret Travis, Jim Bowie, and David Crockett. Three weeks later, he ordered the execution of nearly 400 Texian prisoners at Goliad. Texas appeared finished.
General Sam Houston refused to stop retreating. For six weeks he absorbed the fury of his own men, the panic of fleeing civilians, and the demands of a government in flight — buying time to forge a real army. On April 21, 1836, at San Jacinto, he attacked Santa Anna's camp in the mid-afternoon, when the Mexican forces were resting. The battle lasted eighteen minutes. Shouting "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!", the Texians killed 630 soldiers and captured 730 more. Santa Anna himself was caught the next morning hiding in the grass, dressed as a private.
The Treaties of Velasco ended the war and secured Texas independence. Nine years later, annexation to the United States triggered the Mexican-American War — which transferred half of Mexico's remaining territory to the US and defined the modern map of North America. The Texas Revolution, this chronicle argues, was not merely a border skirmish. It was the opening act of a continental transformation.
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