Texas fights & fighters: a short account of the

"Texas Fights & Fighters: A Short Account Of The Struggle For Texas Independence" by Cyrus T. Brady is a short history that covers the struggle of the American Texas settlers to win their independence from the Mexican State of General Santa Anna. Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) was an Episcopal clergyman and historian as well as a novelist. He was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church and was ordained a priest in 1890. Brady published over 70 novels, all with an accurate historical basis, many of them based on incidents and historical figures in American history. He also published non fiction histories in a series called "Fights And Fighters." He used many primary sources such as diaries, letters, and journals, both published and unpublished, which made him unusual for popular history authors of his time. He also wrote in clear, simple language that made his books popular; unlike the stuffy verbose prose of the professional historian of his day. This book, "Texas Fights & Fighters: A Short Account Of The Struggle For Texas Independence," deals with the struggle of the American settlers of Texas in their revolution for independence. It is a short account of that struggle, but hits all the high points, including The Alamo, The Goliad Massacre, and the Battle of San Jacinto, where the overwhelming victory of Sam Houston secured the struggle for Texas independence. A must-read for the student of Texas history. This e-book contains the illustrations Brady used in the original volume. There are approximately 16,625+ words and approximately 55+ pages at 300 words per page in this e-book. NOTE: This book has been scanned then OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has been applied to turn the scanned page images back into editable text. Then every effort has been made to correct typos, spelling, and to eliminate stray marks picked up by the OCR program. The original and/or extra period images, if any, were then placed in the appropriate place and, finally, the file was formatted for the e-book criteria of the site. This means that the text CAN be re-sized, searches performed, & bookmarks added, unlike some other e-books that are only scanned---errors, stray marks, and all. We have added an Interactive Table of Contents & an Interactive List of Illustrations if any were present in the original. This means that the reader can click on the links in the Table of Contents or the List of Illustrations & be instantly transported to that chapter or illustration. Our aim is to provide the reader AND the collector with long out-of-print (OOP) classic books at realistic prices. If you load your mobile device(s) with our books, not only will you have fingertip access to a large library of antiquarian and out-of-print material at reasonable prices, but you can mark them up electronically & always have them for immediate reference without worrying about damage or loss to expensive bound copies. We will be adding to our titles regularly, look for our offerings on your favorite e-book site.