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Hardcover Cloth 235 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition 2007. Handsome blue boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few stains and wrinkles. HPB pricetag on cover of dust jacket. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Could the British have stopped Manifest Destiny in its tracks in 1836?A Scottish doctor named James Grant was the agent who tried to make it happen, and Texas was the stage on which the secret battle was fought.On the eve of the Texas uprising, only two things stood in the way of American ambitions to reach the Pacific Ocean: the British claim to the Oregon country and the vast but sparsely populated Mexican province of Texas. Britain was therefore almost as concerned with the outcome of the Texians' war as Mexico was.At a… Read More