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| Tango01 | 04 Mar 2017 4:28 p.m. PST |
How the Texas Revolution was reported in Britain. "In the days before overseas telegraph, international news travelled as fast as the fastest ship. Although special correspondents and reporters played a part, unexpected stories required newspaper agents to gather the latest papers tie them up and send them home, where editors would either print verbatim or amalgamate stories to make up a column. Delays in the relay of information, which filtered north and south through Texas into the United States, Mexico and then across the sea, meant that by the time some British readers heard about the fall of the Alamo, the defenders had been dead for nearly two months. As early as February 1836 British newspapers were carrying reports of the Texas Revolution. The column for the 10th of Feb in the London Evening chronicle reported on the Federalist victory at Bejar (12 Oct 1835 – 11 Dec 1835) and 25 April the Morning Post was reporting on the advance of the Mexican army and the initial investment of the fort, the Chronicle speculated that it would soon fall…"
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