James W. Fannin Jr.: A Biography

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dc.contributor.advisorParrish, T. Michael.
dc.contributor.authorHerbelin, Michelle
dc.contributor.departmentHistory.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsHonors College.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T19:39:44Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T19:39:44Z
dc.date.copyright2015-05-11
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a biography of Colonel James W. Fannin Jr., a pivotal and controversial but often marginalized figure in the Texas Revolution. Showing brilliant potential in the 1835 campaign, he was later caught up in the midst of a constitutional crisis in the Texas Provisional Government. He struggled to reckon with conflicting duties and unrealistic expectations in the face of the rapidly advancing Mexican Army. Fannin did not live to see the outcome of the Revolution, meeting his death in a bloody episode known commonly to Texas historiography as the Goliad Massacre. This study makes use of Fannin’s own frank, often introspective correspondence, accounts from the survivors of his command, and even more heretofore unutilized sources, and endeavors to describe Fannin in his rightful historical context: as an American, Southerner, and Texian.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2104/9362
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectTexas Revolutionen_US
dc.subjectGeorgiaen_US
dc.subjectGoliad Campaignen_US
dc.subjectJames W. Fannin Jr.en_US
dc.subjectTexasen_US
dc.subjectWestward Expansionen_US
dc.titleJames W. Fannin Jr.: A Biographyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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