| Description |
1 online resource (124 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Fred Rider Cotten popular history series
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Fred Rider Cotten popular history series ; no. 23.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-110) and index. |
| Contents |
Introducing Matamoros : pearl of great price -- Envisioning Matamoros : refuge among the estuaries -- Puerta Matamoros : doorway to Texas, the Gulf ... and the world -- Patriótica Matamoros : revolution in Texas -- Planning a brilliant folly : the Texan expedition -- Judas, scoundrels, wolves, and rascally acquirements -- Triumphant Matamoros : the Mexican expedition -- Epilogue : Heróica Matamoros. |
| Summary |
The traditional story of the Texas Revolution remembers the Alamo and Goliad but has forgotten Matamoros, the strategic Mexican port city on the turbulent lower Rio Grande. In this book, the author restores the centrality of Matamoros by showing the genuine economic, geographic, social, and military value of the city to Mexican and Texas history. Given that Matamoros served the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Texas, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Chihuahua, and Durango, the city's strategic location and considerable trade revenues were crucial. The author provides a refreshing reinterpretation of the revolutionary conflict in Texas from a Mexican point of view, essentially turning the traditional story on its head. Readers will learn how Matamoros figured in the Mexican government's grand designs not only for national prosperity, but also to preserve Texas from threatened American encroachment. Ironically, Matamoros became closely linked to the United States through trade, and foreign intriguers who sought to detach Texas from Mexico found a home in the city. The author's account culminates in the controversial Texan Matamoros expedition, which was composed mostly of American volunteers and paralyzed the Texas provisional government, divided military leaders, and helped lead to the tragic defeats at the Alamo, San Patricio, Agua Dulce Creek, Refugio, and Coleto (Goliad). Indeed, Sam Houston denounced the expedition as "the author of all our misfortunes." In stark contrast, the brilliant and triumphant Matamoros campaign of Mexican General José de Urrea united his countrymen, defeated these revolutionaries, and occupied the coastal plain from Matamoros to Brazoria. Urrea's victory ensured that Matamoros would remain a part of Mexico, but Matamorenses also fought to preserve their own freedom from the centralizing policies of Mexican President Santa Anna, showing the streak of independence that characterizes Mexico's northern borderlands to this day. --Amazon.com. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Matamoros Expedition (1835-1836)
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Matamoros Expedition (1835-1836) |
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Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico) -- History -- 19th century.
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Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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Mexico -- Matamoros (Tamaulipas) |
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Texas. |
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Regions & Countries -- Americas. |
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History & Archaeology. |
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United States Local History. |
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Revolution (Texas : 1835-1836) |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780876112601 0876112602 (DLC) 2013010128 |
| ISBN |
0876112661 (electronic book) |
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9780876112663 (electronic book) |
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9780876112601 (paperback) |
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0876112602 (paperback) |
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