Remember the Alamo

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Barr Amelia E.. Remember the Alamo

CHAPTER I. THE CITY IN THE WILDERNESS

CHAPTER II. ANTONIA AND ISABEL

CHAPTER III. BUILDERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH

CHAPTER IV. THE SHINING BANDS OF LOVE

CHAPTER V. A FAMOUS BARBECUE

CHAPTER VI. ROBERT WORTH IS DISARMED

CHAPTER VII. A MEETING AT MIDNIGHT

CHAPTER VIII. MOTHER AND PRIEST

CHAPTER IX. THE STORMING OF THE ALAMO

CHAPTER X. THE DOCTOR AND THE PRIEST

CHAPTER XI. A HAPPY TRUCE

CHAPTER XII. DANGER AND HELP

CHAPTER XIII. THE ARRIVAL OF SANTA ANNA

CHAPTER XIV. THE FALL OF THE ALAMO

CHAPTER XV. GOLIAD

CHAPTER XVI. THE LOADSTONE IN THE BREAST

CHAPTER XVII. HOME AGAIN

CHAPTER XVIII. UNDER ONE FLAG

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For many years there had never been any doubt in the mind of Robert Worth as to the ultimate destiny of Texas, though he was by no means an adventurer, and had come into the beautiful land by a sequence of natural and business-like events. He was born in New York. In that city he studied his profession, and in eighteen hundred and three began its practice in an office near Contoit’s Hotel, opposite the City Park. One day he was summoned there to attend a sick man. His patient proved to be Don Jaime Urrea, and the rich Mexican grandee conceived a warm friendship for the young physician.

At that very time, France had just ceded to the United States the territory of Louisiana, and its western boundary was a subject about which Americans were then angrily disputing. They asserted that it was the Rio Grande; but Spain, who naturally did not want Americans so near her own territory, denied the claim, and made the Sabine River the dividing line. And as Spain had been the original possessor of Louisiana, she considered herself authority on the subject.

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“It had no opportunity. The colonists were hardly settled when the standard of revolt against Spain was again raised. Santa Anna took the field for a republican form of government, and once more a body of Americans, under the Tennesseean, Long, joined the Mexican army.”

“I remember that, well.”

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