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cloth : alk. paper
0876112149
cloth : alk. paper
(OCoLC)61881046
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Amberson, Mary Margaret McAllen.
A Brave Boy & A Good Soldier :
John C.C. Hill & the Texas Expedition to Mier /
Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson.
Brave boy and a good soldier.
Austin :
Texas State Historical Association,
2006.
xvi, 78 p. :
ill., maps ;
27 cm.
Accelerated Reader Word Count - 16140.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [61]-75) and index.
Historical figures in this book -- Timeline -- Introduction -- "Father and I are going" -- "The spirit of the troops" -- "An opportunity to break my rifle" -- "Juan Cristobal Colón Gil de Ampudia" -- "My son, what do you wish?" -- "He was forgetting his native tongue.".
Shortly before his fourteenth birthday, John Christopher Columbus Hill left home with his father and older brother to join the ill-fated 1842 Texas expedition to Mier, Tamaulipas, Mexico, to end any questions over ownership of Texas. The story of John Hill's capture and subsequent adoption by President Antonio L̤pez de Santa Anna is one of the most fascinating and curious to come out of this extraordinary episode in Texas history.
Middle grades (4-8.)
Accelerated Reader AR
Middle grades (4-8)
7.6
3.0
115054.
20120111.
Hill, John Christopher Columbus
1828-1904
Juvenile literature.
Santa Anna, Antonio López de
1794?-1876
Juvenile literature.
Texan Mier Expedition
1842-1844
Juvenile literature.
Prisoners of war
Texas
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Prisoners of war
Mexico
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Americans
Mexico
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Texas
History
Republic, 1836-1846
Juvenile literature.
Texas State Historical Association.
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