For the Liberty of Texas

the Liberty of Texas, by Edward Stratemeyer

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Title: For the Liberty of Texas
Author: Edward Stratemeyer
Illustrator: Louis Meynelle
Release Date: July 31, 2007 [EBook #22186]
Language: English
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FOR THE LIBERTY OF TEXAS. UNDER SCOTT IN MEXICO. WITH TAYLOR ON THE RIO GRANDE.
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[Illustration: "'REMEMBER THE ALAMO! DOWN WITH SANTA ANNA!'"]

Mexican War Series

FOR THE LIBERTY OF TEXAS
BY
EDWARD STRATEMEYER
Author of "With Taylor on the Rio Grande," "Under Scott in Mexico," "Dave Porter Series," "Old Glory Series," "Pan-American Series," "Lakeport Series," etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY LOUIS MEYNELLE

BOSTON LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
Copyright, 1900, by Dana Estes & Company Copyright, 1909, by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
All Rights Reserved
For the Liberty of Texas
SET UP AND ELECTROTYPED BY COLONIAL PRESS, BOSTON Printed by BERWICK & SMITH CO., NORWOOD

PREFACE.
"For the Liberty of Texas" is a tale complete in itself, but it forms the first of a line of three volumes to be known under the general title of the "Mexican War Series."
Primarily the struggle of the Texans for freedom did not form a part of our war with Mexico, yet this struggle led up directly to the greater war to follow, and it is probably a fact that, had the people of Texas not at first accomplished their freedom, there would have been no war between the two larger republics.
The history of Texas and her struggle for liberty is unlike that of any other State in our Union, and it will be found to read more like a romance than a detail of facts. Here was a territory, immense in size, that was little better than a wilderness, a territory gradually becoming settled by Americans, Mexicans, Spaniards, French, and pioneers of other nations, a territory which was the home of the bloodthirsty Comanche and other Indians, and which was overrun with deer, buffalo, and the wild mustang, and which was, at times, the gathering ground for the most noted desperadoes of the southwest.
This territory formed, with Coahuila, one of the States of Mexico, but the government was a government in name only, and the people of Texas felt that it was absolutely necessary that they withdraw from the Mexican Confederation, in order to protect themselves, their property, and their individual rights, for, with the scheming Mexicans on one side of them, and the murderous Indians on the other, nothing was safe from molestation.
The contest was fought largely by men who knew little or nothing of the art of war, but men whose courage was superb. At first only defeat stared the intrepid band in the face, and hundreds were lost at the Alamo, at the massacre of Goliad, and elsewhere, but then there came upon the scene the figure of the dashing and daring General Sam Houston, and under his magnetic leadership the army of the