02412cam a2200397 4500 339257642 TxAuBib 20120111120000.0 050923s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005027023 9780876112144 cloth : alk. paper 0876112149 cloth : alk. paper (OCoLC)61881046 TxAuBib 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. ALEML