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Author Donovan, Jim, 1954-

Title The blood of heroes : the 13-day struggle for the Alamo-- and the sacrifice that forged a nation / James Donovan.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown, 2012.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1517363~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  976.403 DON    AVAILABLE
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Description x, 500 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-488) and index.
Contents Prologue -- The hotspur -- "O! He has gone to Texas" -- "The celebrated desperado" -- "The burly is begun" -- The army of the people -- The Battle of Béxar -- "A mere corral and nothing more" -- The Napoleon of the West -- The backwoodsman -- The road to Béxar -- "Circunvalado" -- "I am besieged" -- "This time you may see some blood" -- "Devlish dark" -- "His excellency expects every man to do his duty" -- "That terrible bugle call of death" -- The bleeding country -- "The marrow bone of Texas" -- Last rites -- Afterword: Moses Rose and the line.
Subject Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) -- Siege, 1836.
ISBN 9780316053747
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