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Book Review
| The Secret War for Texas. By Stuart Reid (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. × + 235 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
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James Grant has been accorded a minor place among the leaders of the Texas Revolution. A Scottish doctor, he is best known for organizing a highly controversial expedition to Matamoros in the months prior to Santa Anna's Texas campaign. The expedition ended in disaster, resulting in Grant's death at the hands of Mexican cavalry in the spring of 1836. |
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