The Navy of the Republic of Texas : 1835-1845 (Classic Reprint) by Alex Dienst
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Author: Alex Dienst
Number of Pages: 188 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781331700852
File Name: The.Navy.of.the.Republic.of.Texas.1835-1845.(Classic.Reprint).pdf
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Excerpt from The Navy of the Republic of Texas: 1835-1845
The citizen of Texas, traveling in the United States, is often-times shocked to find that comparatively few people are aware that Texas for ten years was an independent Republic. However, this ignorance is by no means confined to people outside of Texas; even informed Texans are surprised to learn that Texas in her struggle for independence, and the maintaining of that independence, possessed a Navy, powerful enough to aid her in the struggle, and to successfully combat every effort of Mexico to regain her territory.
While in comparison with the great navies of to-day, the navy of the infant Republic was exceedingly small, yet it was greater in its infancy, and better organized, than was the navy of the United States in 1776, and the first year of that memorable struggle for independence. The part that the Texas Navy acted from 1835 to 1846 has never been related. The leading historians of Texas repeatedly testify that the navy was a valuable factor in securing Texas independence, but while admitting this much, they almost without exception fail to chronicle any events in which the navy participated; nothing is said regarding its organization, maintenance, or successes, and the few historians that do give it notice have allowed numerous errors to creep into their statements, and succeeding historians have repeated the errors.
While students may differ in opinion as to what would have ultimately been the fate of the country we now call Texas, none will dispute the assertion that Texas could not at the time have won her independence and maintaind it as she did, without the navy. This is an incontrovertible fact that I shall repeatedly prove in this history. Without a navy to protect her extensive coast, transports laden with thousands of Mexican soldiers, and thousands of tons of provisions, could have been landed in Texas at all times by Mexico, and would have been landed; and this overwhelming force would have conquered the Texans. Furthermore, Texas could have been certain of no supplies from New Orleans, whence came three-fourths of all her troops, supplies, and cash, if the carrying vessels in the trade between New Orleans and Texas had not been reasonably sure of protection against Mexican war vessels.
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