Man from the Alamo, The Review

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An extraordinary insight into the Chartist march on Newport.
Additionally facts about the Alamo previously hidden by the hype and facts about Goliad a place & events forgotten by time.
I was brought up in one of the Welsh mining villages being almost brainwashed into thinking bad of the English, this book lays their perfidy bare. The account of the trial, the treatment of the accused both in England & Tasmania is an indictment of the judicial system then in place.
Finally as a mining engineer the description of William's mining ventures in Wales and particulary in Tasmania are historical gems

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John Rees, soldier and freedom fighter, was a shadowy figure who surfaced during two crucial nineteenth-century revolts and then disappeared from history. For the first time, John Humphries reveals the fate of the man, first mentioned as a member of the New Orleans Greys, who fought for Texan Independence at the Alamo and narrowly escaped execution at the Goliad Mission. Later, he was one of the main agitators in the doomed Welsh Chartist movement before retreating to the American West. Rees' spectacular journey from the bloodied sands of Texas to the last armed uprising on British soil is only one of the stories told in this history book.

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