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Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hs succeeded in driving the Mexi-cans out of Texas. State Government. On the twelfth of November, 1835, aconvention of the people of Texas metat the city of Austin, and organized aregular State government. Prominentamong the members was General SamHouston, a settler from the UnitedStates. Soon after the meeting of theconvention General Austin resigned thecommand of the army, and was sent tothe United States as the commissionerof that State to this government, andwas succeeded as commander-in-chiefby General Sam Houston. Henry Smithwas elected governor of Texas by thepeople. As soon as Santa Anna learned thathis troops had been driven out of Texas,and that the Texans had set up a Stategovernment, he set out for that countrywith an army of seventy-five hundredmen. He issued orders to his troops toshoot every prisoner taken, and intendedto make the struggle a war of extermina-tion. He arrived before the Alamo latein February, 1836. This fort was verystrong, and was held by a force of one
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SCENES IN MEXICO. 53 54 WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. hundred and forty Texans under ColonelTravis. It was besieged by the wholeMexican army, and was subjected to abombardment of eleven days. Davy Crockett. At last, on the sixth of March, thegarrison being worn out with fatigue,the fort was carried by assault, and thewhole garrison was put to the sword.Among the heroes who fell at the TexanThermopylae was the eccentric but chiv-alrous Colonel Davy Crockett, of Ten-nessee, who had generously come to aidthe Texans in their struggle for liberty.The capture of the Alamo cost the Mexi-cans a loss of sixteen hundred men, orover eleven men for every one of itsdefenders. On the 17th of March, 1836, the con-vention adopted a constitution for anindependent republic, and formally pro-claimed the independence of Texas.David G. Burnett was elected presidentof the republic. The fort at Goliad was held by a forceof three hundred and thirty Texans,under Colonel Fanning, a native ofGeorgia

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