The Mexican War: Remember the Alamo
Part One
This is the first episode in a long series over the Mexican War from 1846 to 1848.
I begin the series where it all started: the Louisiana Purchase. I talk about the filibusterers such as Nolan, Long, and others. I then tell the story of Austin and his Old Three Hundred before marching headlong into the beginning of the Texas Revolution with Sam Houston and William Barret Travis. I end the episode with the assault on the Alamo and the fate of all those brave volunteers.
Selected Sources:
Jefferson Davis Mexican War Regiment by Joseph E Chance
A Perfect Gibraltar: The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846 by Chris D. Dishman
The Training Ground by Martin Dugard
So Far From God by John SD Eisenhower
Texian Iliad by Stephen Hardin
Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas by Stephen Harrigan
James K Polk and the Expansionist Impulse by Sam W Haynes
The California Campaign of the US Mexican War by Hunt Janin and Ursula Carlson
To The Halls of The Montezumas by Robert Johannsen
The Mexican war: a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the generals. To which is added, the treaty of peace, and valuable tables of the strength and losses of the United States army by Edward D. Mansfield
Mormon Battalion by Michael N Landon & Brandon J Metcalf
The Old West: The Mexican War by the Editors of Time-Life Books with text by David Nevin
The Old West: The Texans by the Editors of Time-Life Books with text by David Nevin
The Mormon Battalion by Norman Baldwin Ricketts
A Newer World by David Roberts
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
Texas and the Mexican War: A Chronicle of the Winning of the Southwest, Volume 24 by Nathaniel Stephenson
I did not use AI in the writing, researching, or recording of this episode or any other episode of mine.