Exodus From the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth (60 page)

Groneman,
Alamo Defenders
, pp. 88–89.
^165.
King,
James Clinton Neill
, pp. 1, 3–4.
^166.
Guerra,
Heroes of the Alamo
, n.p.
^167.
Gleeson,
The Irish in the South
, pp. 31–32; Editors of American Heritage,
Andrew Jackson, Soldier and Statesman
(New York: Harper and Row, 1963), pp. 11–14.
^168.
Gleeson,
The Irish in the South
, p. 32; Craig H. Roell,
Remember Goliad!
, (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1994), pp. 24–27, 31.
^169.
Gleeson,
The Irish in the South
, 1815–1877, pp. 26–28; 31–32.
^170.
Brown,
The New Orleans Greys
, pp. 18, 37, 299, 302–304, 306, 308.
^171.
Mary Frances Cusack,
An Illustrated History of Ireland, from AD 400 to 1800
(London: Bracken Books, 1995), pp. 257–634.
^172.
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 56.
^173.
Jackson,
Alamo Legacy
, pp. 47–51.
^174.
New York Times
, January 27, 1895.
^175.
St. Louis Republican
, April 28, 1836; Brown,
The New Orleans Greys
, pp. 36–37, 81; King,
James Clinton Neill
, pp. 79–80; Nelson,
The Alamo
, p. 111; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, pp. 712–713; Winders,
Sacrificed at the Alamo
, pp. 89–95.
Chapter 2: NAPOLEONIC INFLUENCES
^1.
Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, pp. ix–xi, xviii–xix; Scheina,
Santa Anna
, p. vii.
^2.
Robinson, ed. and trans.,
The View From Chapultepec
, p. xv; Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, pp. ix, xviii–xix, xxiii.
^3.
New York Herald
, June 10, 1836; Adam Zamoyski,
Moscow 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March
, (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004), pp. 294–295; Richard K. Riehn,
1812: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign
, (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1991), pp. 265–407; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 10; Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico, ix, xviii–xix, xxiii, 170, 179.
^4.
Robert L. Scheina,
Latin America’s Wars: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791–1899
, (Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, Inc., 2003), p. 157; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, pp. 6, 9; Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, p. 163.
^5.
Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, pp. xi, xxi, xxii, 6–7, 12–13, 15; Edwin Williamson,
The Penguin History of Latin America
, (New York: Penguin Books, 1992), pp. 258–261; John Charles Chasteen,
Born in Blood and Fire
:
A Concise History of Latin America
, (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2001), pp. 126–127, 152–153; Scheina,
Santa Anna
, pp. 4–5; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, pp. 41–42; Roger Borroel, editor and translator,
Field Reports of the Mexican Army During the Texan War of 1836
, (East Chicago: “La Villita Publications,” 2001), vol. iii, p. 51.
^6.
Weems and Weems,
Dream of Empire
, p. 8; Perry, ed. and trans.,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, p. 60.
^7.
The Portable Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
, (New York: The Viking Press, 1952), pp. 515–630.
^8.
Winders,
Sacrificed at the Alamo
, pp. 15–19; Perry, ed. and trans.,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, pp. 60; Groneman,
Alamo Defenders
, p. 81.
^9.
De Brahl,
Sword of San Jacinto
, p. 206; Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, pp. 209–210.
^10.
De Brahl,
Sword of San Jacinto
, pp. 199–213; James W. Pohl,
The Battle of San Jacinto
, (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1989), pp. 22–48; Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, pp. 188–217; James Marshall-Cornwall,
Napoleon
, (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand, 1967), pp. 127, 142–145; Roger Borroel, ed. and trans.,
Field Reports of the Mexican Army During the Texan War of 1836
, (East Chicago: “La Villita Publications,” 2001), vol. iv, p. 16; F. G. Hourtoulle, Austerlitz,
The Eagle’s Sun
, (Paris, France: Histoire & Collections, 2003), pp. 4–127.
^11.
New York Herald
, June 15, 1836; Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, pp. 216–217; De Brahl,
Sword of San Jacinto
, p. 206.
^12.
Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, pp. ix, xviii–xix, xxiii; Scheina,
Santa Anna
, p. 3.
^13.
Scheina,
Santa Anna
, pp. 18–21; Leonard Cooper,
Many Roads to Moscow: Three Historic Invasions
, (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1968), pp. 3, 71–177; Vincent Cronin,
Napoleon
, (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994), pp. 302–335.
^14.
Richard G. Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas, 1835-1836
, (Waco, Texas: Texian Press, 1968), p. 10.
^15.
Scheina,
Santa Anna
, pp. 18–21; Philip G. Dwyer,
Napoleon and Europe
, (London: Pearson Education Limited, 2001), pp. 128–135; Cronin,
Napoleon
, pp. 302–334; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, pp. 6–7.
^16.
Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, xi, 17; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, pp. 140–141.
^17.
De Bruhl,
Sword of San Jacinto
, p. 174; Hourtoulle,
Austerlitz
, pp. 4–127.
^18.
R. F. Delderfield,
Napoleon’s Marshals
, (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002), p. 34; Scheina,
Santa Anna
, p. 6; Cronin,
Napoleon
, pp. 111–165.
^19.
Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, pp. 7, 19, 89; Scheina,
Santa Anna
, pp. 6, 24; Roberts and Oslon,
A Line in the Sand
, pp. 5–6, 66–67, 72; Perry, ed. and trans.,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, p. 21; Cronin,
Napoleon
, pp. 43. 205–206.
^20.
Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, p. 102; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 7.
^21.
Scheina,
Santa Anna
, pp. 7–8,14, 16; Cronin,
Napoleon
, p. 279.
^22.
“The Last Testament of Santa Anna,” Vera Cruz, Mexico, September 26, 1867, Roger Borroel, translator, Collection, East Chicago, Indiana: Scheina,
Santa Anna
, pp. 7–8, 14, 16; Julia Kathryn, Garrett,
Green Flag over Texas
:
The Story of the First War of Independence in Texas
, (New York: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1939), pp. 32–235; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, pp. 41–42; Michener,
The Eagle and the Raven
, pp. 43, 45, 46–73; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, pp. 6–9; Perry, ed. and trans.,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, p. 18; Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, pp. 11–12, 17–29, 89.
^23.
Robert L. Tarin, Jr., Papers, Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Horgan,
Great River
, pp. 476–477; Davis,
Lone Star Rising
, pp. 116–117, 163–164; Fehrenbach,
Lone Star
, pp. 128–130
^24.
Jasper Ridley,
Maximilian and Juarez
, (London, England: Phoenix Press,1992), pp. 10–11.
^25.
Stephenson,
Texas and the Mexican War
, pp. 27–28;
The Telegraph and Texas Register
, February
20, 1836; Miller,
New Orleans and the Texas Revolution
, pp. xi–209.
^26.
Binkley,
The Texas Revolution
, pp. 21–22
^27.
William G. Cooke Papers, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas; Brown,
The New Orleans Greys
, pp. 11–289.
^28.
Miller,
New Orleans and the Texas Revolution
, pp. 51, 122; Hopewell,
James Bowie
, pp. 95–96.
^29.
Scheina,
Santa Anna
, pp. 23–26; Michener,
The Eagle and the Raven
, pp. 112–113; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, pp. 14–26; Winders,
Sacrificed at the Alamo
, pp. 44–47; William A. DePalo, Jr.,
The Mexican National Army
, 1822–1852, (College Station: Texas A & M Press, 1997), p. 33.
^30.
Scheina,
Santa Anna
, p. 26;
The Telegraph and Texas Register
, September 13, 1836; Michener,
The Eagle and the Raven
, p. 113; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 26.
^31.
Michener,
The Eagle and the Raven
, p. 113; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 27.
^32.
Scheina,
Santa Anna
, pp. 25–26; Perry, ed. and trans.,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, p. 18.
^33.
Scheina,
Santa Anna
, p. 27; Lozano,
Viva Tejas
, pp. 10–11; Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, p. 102; Perry, ed. and trans.,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, pp. 8, 9, 11; Long,
Duel of Eagles
, pp. 109–110; Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, pp. 15–16. 161,179.
^34.
Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, p. 1; Roger Borroel, editor and translator,
Field Reports of the Mexican Army During the Texan War of 1836
, (East Chicago, Indiana: “La Villita Publications,” 2006), vol vi, p. 42; Perry, ed. and trans.,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, pp. 11, 16, 29; Roger Borroel, editor and translator,
Field Reports of the Mexican Army During the Texan War of
1836
, vol. ii, (East Chicago, Indiana: “La Villita Publications,” 2001), pp. 7, 9, 25; DePalo,
The Mexican National Army
, pp. 30–31; Lord,
A Time to Stand
, p. 69.
^35.
New York Herald
, March 23, 1836; Borroel, ed. and trans.,
Field Reports of the Mexican Army During the Texan War of 1836
, vol. ii, pp. 29-30; DePalo,
The Mexican National Army
, p. 48.
^36.
Borroel, ed. and trans.,
Field Reports of the Mexican Army During the Texan War of 1836
, vol. ii, p. 31.
^37.
Barr,
Texans in Revolt
, p. 63.
^38.
“The Last Testament of Santa Anna,” RBC; McDonald,
William Barret Travis
, p. 86; Scheina,
Santa Anna
, p. 14, 29; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, p. 238; Huffines,
Blood of Noble Men
, p. 57; Hopewell,
James Bowie
, p.68; Perry, ed. and trans.,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, p. 18; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, p. 20; Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, pp. 166–167.
Chapter 3: THE ULTIMATE FOLLY: THE DEFENSE OF THE ALAMO
^1.
Winders,
Sacrificed at the Alamo
, pp. 78–110; Brands, pp. 160, 338–339; King,
James Clinton Neill
, pp. 80–81.
^2.
George Fisher to Stephen Austin, October 20, 1836, Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Editors of Time-Life,
The Texans
, pp. 71, 74.
^3.
Jackson,
Alamo Legacy
, p. 30.
^4.
Ibid., pp. 31–32; John Sutherland Manuscript, “Fall of the Alamo,” Amelia W. Williams Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, pp. 111, 117; Mark Derr,
The Frontiersman, The Real Life and the Many Legends of Davy Crockett
, (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993), pp. 240–241; Shackford,
David Crockett
, pp. 224–227; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, pp. 160, 338–391; Winders,
Sacrificed at the Alamo
, pp. 88–89, 93–94; King,
James Clinton Neill
, pp. 77–78, 80; Long,
Duel of Eagles
, pp. 30–32, 70; Hansen, ed., The Alamo Reader, pp. 15–29; Lord,
A Time to Stand
, p. 56.
^5.
Winders,
Sacrificed at the Alamo
, p. 94; Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, pp. 111, 117; Roberts and Oslon,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 98; Lord,
A Time to Stand
, p. 83.
^6.
Joseph Wheelan,
6. Joseph Wheelan, 1848
, (New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2007), p. 46; Borroel, ed. and trans.,
Field Reports of the Mexican Army During the Texan War of 1836
, vol. iii, p. 31.
^7.
Shackford,
David Crockett
, p. 225; Borroel, ed. and trans.,
Field Reports of the Mexican Army During the Texan War of 1836
, vol. iii, p. 23.
^8.
Editors of Time-Life,
The Texans
, p. 70.
^9.
Gaddy,
Texas in Revolt
, p. 36; Uecker,
The Archaeology of the Alamo
, pp. 9, 17, 49, 52–54
78–79, 87, 90; Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, pp. 128, 130–131; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, pp. 43–44.
^10.
Maryland Gazette
, December 3, 1835.
^11.
Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, p. 288.
^12.
King,
James Clinton Neill
, pp. vii, 11, 21, 33, 37, 44, 78, 81–82, 85–87; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, pp. 44–45; Jackson,
Alamo Legacy
, p. 28.
^13.
Thonhoff,
The Texas Connection
, pp. 4–6; Jackson,
Imaginary Kingdoms
, pp. 4–5; Chipman,
Spanish Texas
, pp. 117, 135–136; James Lockhart and Stuart B. Schwartz,
Early Latin America, A History of colonial Spanish America and Brazil
, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 290–293; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, p. 143.
^14.