Posted on 04/21/2009 7:06:35 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Don’t Mess With Armed Texans
http://www.davekopel.com/NRO/Don’t-Mess-with-Armed-Texans.htm
As the Texans advanced with their rifles and Bowie knives, a single fife and a single drum played the love song “Will You Come to the Bower?”
Will you come to the bower I have shaded for you?
Your bed shall be of roses, be spangled with dew.
Will you, will you, will you come to the bower?
Will you, will you, will you come to the bower?
There under the bower on soft roses you’ll lie,
With a blush on your cheek, but a smile in your eye.
Will you, will you, will you smile my beloved?
Will you, will you, will you smile my beloved?
But the roses we press shall not rival your lips,
nor the dew be so sweet as the kisses we’ll sip.
Will you, will you, will you kiss me my beloved?
Will you, will you, will you kiss me my beloved?
An odd song for combat? Not to the Texans, who were fighting to protect their wives and families.
TEXAS BUMP!
Texas Independence Day is March 2. But I guess it wasn’t for real until April 21.
Yes, it seems like an odd choice of song. Doubt the Mexicans understood what the tune was.
More appropriate to sing to the Mexican Army might have been the “Hotel California” “you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.”
There were skirmishes much after San Jacinto. But not since Black Jack Pershing.
"The Treaty of Velasco was never ratified in Mexico, from the end of the revolution to roughly the begining of the Mexican-American War, the Texas navy was tasked with forcing the Mexican Government to accept Texas independence. Although fighting between the Mexican and Texan armies ceased, battles on water were still unfolding. Such as the Battle of Brazos River, Battle of Campeche, Battle of Galveston Harbor and the Naval Battle of Campeche."
There is an historical marker at the rest stop on HWY 77 just north of the border patrol checkpoint. The marker marks the location where Zachary Taylor camped for on his way to Brownsville where he would invade Mexico. I mentioned it to someone shortly afterwards and he asked if I saw the grapes growing wild there. I said I did. He said that according to legend, the grapes growing there were planted by Zachary Taylor’s troops.
God Bless Texas!
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As did I. He fired the first shot. Erastus “Deaf” Smith.
Greetings to you on this auspicious day!
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