THE

RISE, PROGRESS, AND PROSPECTS

OF THE

REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

BY

WILLIAM KENNEDY, Esq.

"Texas is one of the finest countries in the world; and yet the Europeans, eager as they
have been to make conquests in America, have seemed, almost to the present day, ignorant of
its existence."

History of Louisiana, by M. de Marbois, Peer of France, First President of the
Court of Accounts, under Napoleon and Louis XVIII.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

R. HASTINGS, 13, CAREY STREET,

LINCOLN'S INN.

1841.

937.

ΤΟ

THE MOST NOBLE

THE MARQUESS OF NORMANBY

HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR

THE HOME DEPARTMENT,

THIS WORK,

DESCRIPTIVE OF A FAIR AND FERTILE TERRITORY,

COMMEMORATIVE OF THE

STRUGGLE OF A FREE-BORN PEOPLE FOR THEIR RIGHTS,

AND ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE

PROGRESS OF THAT PEOPLE UNDER UNEXAMPLED

DIFFICULTIES,

IS, WITH PERMISSION,

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.