EPISODE · Apr 17, 2018 · 21 MIN
The Fall of San Antonio
from A New History of Old Texas · host Brandon Seale
In the first years of the Republic of Texas, San Antonio was assaulted by Mexican Centralist forces almost every year until finally falling - twice - to Mexican armies in 1842. These invasions struck a tragic blow to the unity of the fragile new multi-ethnic Republic, even as the period gave birth to the national symbols of the two peoples warring over the little frontier town.Selected BibliographyAlessio Robles, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (1978).De La Teja, Jesús F., ed. A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín (2002).De la Teja, Jesús F. San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier (1996).De Zavala, Lorenzo. Journey to the United States of North America: Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte de América. Michael Woolsey, trans., and John-Michael Rivera ed. (2005).Fisher, Lewis F. Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage (2016).Maverick, Mary A. Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick (2007).McDonald, David R. José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas (2013).Poyo, Gerald Eugene, and Gilberto M. Hinojosa, eds. Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio (1995).Ramos, Raúl A. Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 (2010).Texas State Historical Association. The Handbook of Texas Online.Tijerina, Andrés. Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836 (1994).www.BrandonSeale.com
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In the first years of the Republic of Texas, San Antonio was assaulted by Mexican Centralist forces almost every year until finally falling - twice - to Mexican armies in 1842. These invasions struck a tragic blow to the unity of the fragile new multi-ethnic Republic, even as the period gave birth to the national symbols of the two peoples warring over the little frontier town. Selected Bibliography Alessio Robles, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (1978). De La Teja, Jes...
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