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Author Bradley, Ed, 1969- author.

Title "We never retreat" : filibustering expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812-1822 / Ed Bradley
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; number forty
Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 40.
Contents 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
Summary 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 in the studies of American-based filibustering, these expeditions were led by colorful men such as Augustus William Magee, Bernardo GutiƩrrez de Lara, John Robinson, and James Long. Previous accounts of their activities are brief, lack the appropriate context to fully understand filibustering, and leave gaps in the historiography. Ed Bradley now offers a thorough recounting of filibustering into Spanish Texas framed through the lens of personal and political motives: why American men participated in them and to what extent the US government was either involved in or tolerated them.?We Never Retreat? makes a major contribution by placing these expeditions within the contexts of the Mexican War of Independence and international relations between the United States and Spain.--Amazon.com
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Filibusters -- Texas
GutiƩrrez-Magee Expedition, 1812-1813.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Filibusters
SUBJECT Texas -- History -- 1810-1821. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134264
United States -- Foreign relations -- Spain
Spain -- Foreign relations -- United States
Subject Spain
Texas
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781623492618
1623492610