biography
| name: |
Bowie, Jim
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popular name of James Bowie
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pronunciation:
[booee, bohee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1796–1836)
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| biography:
| US pioneer, born in Logan Co, Kentucky, USA. After settling in Texas, he became a naturalized Mexican citizen. As a colonel in the Texan army, he was killed at the Battle of the Alamo. He may have been the inventor of the curved dagger or sheath-knife, that was later named after him. |
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