Death of Davy Crockett

Peter A. McGraw pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Tue Apr 13 21:41:33 UTC 2004


--On Tuesday, April 13, 2004 5:02 PM -0400 "James A. Landau"
<JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> wrote:

> Long cites "De la Pen~a, Jose/ Enrique.  _With Santa Anna in Texas: A
> Personal Narrative of the Revolution._  Edited and translated by Carmen
> Perry. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1975."  No date
> is given for any publication of De La Pena's in the original Spanish.

> I find it odd that an officer in the Mexican Army would refer to the
> fighting in Texas as "The Revolution".

Does the translation give the original Spanish title?  Translators don't
always use a word-for-word translation of the original title.

Peter Mc.

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