The Texas Navy The Texas Navy

The Texas Navy

    • $4.99
    • $4.99

Publisher Description

A Cactus Navy? 

Everyone has heard of the USS Constitution and the USS Constellation. They were the first two ships commissioned into the United States Navy.   But have you ever heard of the Liberty and the Invincible?  They were the first two ships commissioned into the Navy of the Republic of Texas. 

Between 1835 and 1845 the Republic of Texas had their own fleet.  In between court martialing each other, suppressing mutinies, legalizing piracy and getting stone drunk in New Orleans—they actually found the time to beat the British and Spanish- trained Mexican navy. 

In 1906, Alex Dienst made an exhaustive study of the Texas Navy. Using original source documents and newspaper accounts of the day—now, in many cases, long lost—he put together this intriguing book. 

It's a little known story of chaos and confusion, mixed with unparalleled heroism; and it deserves to be told again. 

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2010
November 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Fireship Press
SELLER
Fireship Press, LLC
SIZE
1.4
MB

More Books Like This

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
2008
To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth
2022
Sea of Gray Sea of Gray
2007
Utmost Gallantry Utmost Gallantry
2011
George Washington's Secret Navy George Washington's Secret Navy
2008
Origin and Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836 (Texas History Tales, #1) Origin and Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836 (Texas History Tales, #1)
2013

More Books by Alex Dienst