"We never retreat"
Subtitle: filibustering expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812-1822
By: Ed Bradley
Edition: First edition.
Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest -- number forty; Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest -- no. 40.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781623492571; 9781623492618
Subjects: Filibusters; History; Foreign relations; Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition, 1812-1813
Description: The term ?filibuster? often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century?invasion of foreign lands by private military forces. Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short shrift in the studies of American-based filibustering, these expeditions were led by colorful men such as Augustus William Magee, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, John Robinson, and James Long. Previous accounts of their activities are brief, lack the appropriate context to fully understand filibustering, and leave gaps in the historiography. Ed Bradley now offers a thorough recounting of filibustering into Spanish Texas framed through the lens of personal and political motives: why American men participated in them and to what extent the US government was either involved in or tolerated them. ?We Never Retreat? makes a major contribution by placing these expeditions within the contexts of the Mexican War of Independence and international relations between the United States and Spain.--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: Philip Nolan: harbinger of the Texas filibustering era; title: The Magee-Gutierrez Expedition: from conception to the taking of La Bahia; title: The Magee-Gutierrez Expedition, part II; title: From John H. Robinson to James Long; title: The 1819 Texas filibuster of James Long; title: James Long and the end of the Texas filibustering era.