A History of Texas for Schools: Also for General Reading and for Teachers Preparing Themselves for ExaminationMrs. P. V. Pennybacker, 1912 - 353 páginas |
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ADMINISTRATION Alamo Americans Anna's annexation Anson Jones army asked Austin Austin's colony Bayou became born Brazoria Brazos Burleson Burnet called camp cannon Capitol Captain captured civil claimed Coahuila Colonel colonists Comanches command Confederate Congress Constitution convention death declared died Edward Burleson elected enemy ernor expedition families Fannin father forced France Galveston Goliad Gonzales Governor governor of Texas granted Greer County honor hundred Indians killed Lafitte Lamar land legislature Lieutenant-Governor Lorenzo de Zavala Louisiana Magee March Matamoras Mexican Mexico miles military mission Mississippi Nacogdoches officers ordered party passed patriot priests prisoners Railroad refused Republic of Texas returned revolution River Rusk Salle Salle's San Antonio San Felipe San Jacinto Santa Anna Santa Fé sent settled Smith soldiers soon Spain Spaniards Spanish surrender Texans Texas Revolution tion took town Travis tribes troops United States Senate Zavala
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Página 129 - The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat.
Página 170 - At daylight we resumed the line of march, and in a short distance our scouts encountered those of the enemy, and we received information that General Santa Anna was at New Washington, and would that day take up the line of march for Anahuac, crossing at Lynch's Ferry. The Texan army halted within half a mile of the ferry...
Página 163 - Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states to a consolidated central military despotism in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood — both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the ever-ready minions of power, and the usual instruments...
Página 163 - ... minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants; when, long after the spirit of the Constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the Constitution discontinued; and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new Government upon them at the point of the bayonet...
Página 163 - When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived...
Página 338 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Página 165 - It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God.
Página 171 - The conflict in the breastwork lasted but a few moments ; many of the troops encountered hand to hand, and, not having the advantage of bayonets on our side, our riflemen used their pieces as war-clubs, breaking many of them • off at the breech. The rout commenced at half -past four, and the pursuit by the main army continued until twilight.
Página 166 - We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior. We are...
Página 170 - At half-past three o'clock in the evening, I ordered the officers of the Texan army to parade their respective commands, having in the meantime ordered the bridge on the only road communicating with the Brazos, distant eight miles from our encampment, to be destroyed, thus cutting off all possibility of escape.