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|a Jordan, Jonathan W.,
|d 1967-
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|a Lone Star navy :
|b Texas, the fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the shaping of the American West /
|c Jonathan W. Jordan.
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|a 1st ed.
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|a Washington, D.C. :
|b Potomac Books,
|c ©2006.
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|a 1 online resource (xiii, 381 pages, [16] pages of plates) :
|b illustrations, maps
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|a Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-368) and index.
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|a OVERTURE: SHIFTING WINDS -- PROLOGUE: PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION (1832-1835)-- One: The Troubled Texas Waters -- Two: Drawing Blood -- Three: The Influence of Naval Power on the Texas Revolution -- ACT ONE: FLEET OF THE REVOLUTION (1835-1836)-- Four: A War of Privateers -- Five: The Fleet that Sank its Government -- Six: Iron Men for Wooden Ships -- Seven: The Revolution at Sea -- ACT TWO: A NATIONAL FLEET (1836-1837)-- Eight: Defending the Lone Star -- Nine: The General at the Helm -- Ten: A Clash of Flagships -- Eleven: Mister Fisher's Revenge -- Twelve: Death of a Navy -- Thirteen: Hell to Pay -- INTERMISSION: THE PAPER NAVY (1837-1839)-- Fourteen: Managing a Ghost Fleet -- Fifteen: Vive la France! -- ACT THREE: THE SECOND TEXAS NAVY (1839-1846)-- Sixteen: Houston, Lamar and Shifting Political Currents -- Seventeen: Phoenix of the Sea -- Eighteen: Wintertime in New York -- Nineteen: The Seafaring Life -- Twenty: Gunboat Diplomacy -- Twenty-one: At Sea -- Twenty-two: Second Thoughts -- Twenty-three: The Great Game -- Twenty-four: Red Skies in Morning -- Twenty-five: The Wooden Aegis -- Twenty-six: Mutiny on the San Antonio -- Twenty-seven: The Horse Latitudes -- Twenty-eight: The Plan -- Twenty-nine: Amateurs in Command -- Thirty: "To Save the Republic" -- Thirty-one: The Last Hurrah -- Thirty-two: Cat and Mouse -- Thirty-three: The Showdown -- Thirty-four: The Pirate Navy -- Thirty-five: The War at Home -- Thirty-six: A Slow Death -- Thirty-seven: Jetsam and Flotsam -- Thirty-eight: Ghosts and Graves -- EPILOGUE -- The Verdict -- APPENDIX A: The Texas Navy and the San Jacinto Campaign -- APPENDIX B: Glossary of Selected Naval Terms.
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|a HISTORY
|x State & Local
|x General.
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|a Military operations, Naval.
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|a Texas
|x History, Naval
|y 19th century.
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|a Mexico, Gulf of
|x History, Naval
|y 19th century.
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|a Texas
|x History
|y Revolution, 1835-1836
|x Naval operations.
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|a Texas
|x History
|y Republic, 1836-1846.
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|a Gulf of Mexico.
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|a Texas.
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