![]() Now more than ever, the Red Cross is counting on the generosity of everyday heroes to donate blood to help save lives and support the Red Cross mission during this unprecedented public health crisis. If you are healthy and feeling well schedule an appointment to give blood with the American Red Cross by visiting, using the Red Cross Blood Donor App, calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or activating the Blood Scheduling Skill for Amazon Alexa. Healthy, eligible individuals are needed now to give in the days ahead to help patients counting on lifesaving blood throughout this pandemic. Low blood inventories can jeopardize the care of accident and burn victims, heart surgery and organ transplant patients, and those receiving treatment for leukemia, cancer or sickle cell disease. Through March 19, more than 5,000 Red Cross blood drives have been canceled across the country, resulting in some 170,000 fewer blood donations. ![]() The author reads his own work and does a great job.The American Red Cross is facing a severe blood shortage as the number of canceled blood drives grows at an alarming rate due to coronavirus disease 2019. If you aren’t a Texan you might understand us a little better if you read it. If you are a Texan, don’t miss this book. ![]() After reading this volume you will want to visit Bastrop and Nacogdoches for sure. Fehrenbach is still my favorite historian, but Donovan also makes me appreciate the historian’s task and talent. Did Travis draw a line in the dust? Did Crocket really go down fighting? Was there, indeed, one member of the Alamo’s residents who escaped? Donovan presents the evidence as it is currently available. Certain questions remaining from those fateful days are entertained by Donovan. The Mexican perspective takes some prominence here since everyone contained in the Alamo ultimately died during the battle of the Alamo. Donovan presents the lives of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis along with the forces that brought them to the Alamo and their fates. This book first reminded me of the stories supporting Wilder’s Bridge of San Luis Rey. Davy Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis made their stand with about 175 others. On FebruSanta Anna laid siege to the Alamo. Those things remain true, but James Donovan’s The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo – and the Sacrifice that Forged a Nation is a great addition to the literature. Fehrenbach’s Texas History (Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans) was the best book I had read on the state’s history (or the history of The Republic more accurately). I am a Texan and carry all of that tradition which my birthright entails. Populated by larger-than-life characters - including Davy Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - it is a dynamic story of courage, sacrifice, and redemption. In the end, they were all slaughtered.ĭrawing upon newly available primary sources, The Blood of Heroes is the definitive account of this epic battle. ![]() The Americans, despite being hugely outnumbered, fought valiantly - for themselves and for a division of an independent Texas. Then, on March 6th, at 5:30 A.M., the Mexican troops unleashed a final devastating assault: divided into four columns, they rushed into the Alamo and commenced a deadly hand-to-hand fight. For nearly two weeks, the massive force lay siege to the makeshift fort, spraying its occupants with unremitting waves of musket and cannon fire. On February 23, 1836, a Mexican army thousands of soldiers strong attacked a group of roughly 200 Americans holed up in an abandoned mission just east of San Antonio, Texas. The Blood of Heroes is the gripping and definitive chronicle of the iconic battle that inspired a nation - a sweeping saga of 200 brave Americans who stood tall against an overwhelmingly superior Mexican force. ![]()
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