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Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas - A Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas - A Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Springer Biographies
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Translated from the original French and annotated with figures,
historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is
Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the
American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a
couple of years as assistant astronomer at the Brussels
Observatory, but eventually moved to the United States. He was
living as a frontierman in Texas when the Civil War broke out, and
because he took an abolitionist stance and helped slaves escape, he
was forced to flee to Mexico, from where he sailed to New Orleans
on board of a US military vessel. Originally titled La terreur
blanche au Texas et mon 'evasion, Houzeau captured the details of
his escape in 1862.The editors, an astronomer and a French language
teacher, have added supplementary material to give the readers more
depth and historical context to the story.
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