Contents

One: The Hotspur

Two: “O! He Has Gone to Texas”

Three: “The Celebrated Desperado”

Four: “The Burly Is Begun”

Five: The Army of the People

Six: The Battle of Béxar

Seven: “A Mere Corral and Nothing More”

Eight: The Napoleon of the West

Nine: The Backwoodsman

Ten: The Road to Béxar

Eleven: Circunvalado

Twelve: “I Am Besieged”

Thirteen: “This Time You May See Some Blood”

Fourteen: “Devlish Dark”

Fifteen: “His Excellency Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty”

Sixteen: “That Terrible Bugle Call of Death”

Seventeen: The Bleeding Country

Eighteen: “The Marrow Bone of Texas”

Nineteen: Last Rites

Afterword: Moses Rose and the Line

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by James Donovan

Appendix One: Mexican Army of Operations Principal Officers

Appendix Two: Alamo Defenders

Acclaim for James Donovan’s The Blood of Heroes