Remember the Alamo

Canada Free Press ^ | February 27, 2013 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

[BigReb555]

“The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion; otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat”-- Lieutenant Colonel Comdt. of the Alamo William Barret Travis.

[BigReb555]

The year was 1836 and all eyes were upon the State of Texas!

“The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion; otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat”-- Lieutenant Colonel Comdt. of the Alamo William Barret Travis.

Let’s remember and teach our young people about those pivotal days of glory and honor two hundred seventy-seven years ago, when The Battle of the Alamo was fought between (February 23, 1936-March 6, 1836).

The cry “Remember the Alamo” was echoed when the Alamo Mission fell after 13 days of bloody siege by Mexican troops led by President-General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.

It is estimated that 400 to 600 Mexican’s were killed but eye witness accounts reported between 182 and 257 brave Texican’s lost their lives including those who attempted to surrender. Santa Anna’s perceived cruelty inspired many to join the Texas army of Gen. Sam Houston. On the morning of March 6, 1836, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Two attacks were repulsed by the Alamo defenders but they were unable to fend off the third.

The Alamo Mission that was called San Antonio de Bexar and located near San Antonio looks so small, today, but…. There was nothing small about those who took a heroic and noble stand for the freedom of Texas and helped buy time for General Sam Houston who would defeat the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836.

From February 23 to March 6, 1836, a small band of brave men at the Alamo stood between Santa Anna’s 5,000 man army and the unprepared small army of Sam Houston. In that lonely monastery were Davy Crocket, Jim Bowie and less than two hundred men from all over our young American nation. Just three days before Santa Anna’s final assault, these men came into the Alamo, knowing full well they might die.

Of those who defended to Alamo were from many backgrounds, including: 13 native-born Texicans, 11 of those being of Mexican descent, and the remaining men were European, Jewish, Black and the Northern and Southern regions of the United States.

On their last night on earth the men of the Alamo prayed that their battle would, somehow, lead to victory even though they would die. Their prayer was answered. Just weeks later at San Jacinto, Houston defeated Santa Anna with the battle cry of, “Remember the Alamo!” From that battle was born the Republic of Texas.

In the 1900s the Texas Legislature purchased the land and buildings around the Alamo Chapel as an official Texas Shrine.

See the 1960 movie “The Alamo” starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett, Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie, Lawrence Harvey as Colonel William Travis and Richard Boone as General Sam Houston.

Let’s not forget the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21st and “Remember the Alamo!”

[massgopguy]

I suppose wearing a Tee Shirt that says “Remember the Alamo” will be grounds for suspension from school.

[Texas Fossil]

Let’s not forget the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21st

BUMP! 18 minutes that defined a Republic that eventually became 1/3 of this great nation.

Remember: Death to Tyrants and Dictators!

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Such a Tee Shirt will never be banned in Texas.

[wardaddy]

God bless y’all

Soon as the Latinos become a majority in Texas these days will be long gone
Just like Confederate flags and singing Dixie

Welcome to brown socialist America

Guaranteed to be so satisfying 2 mean old white people

I don’t know about you guys but I can hardly wait

[Unknowing]

“Let’s remember and teach our young people about those pivotal days of glory and honor two hundred seventy-seven years ago, when The Battle of the Alamo was fought between (February 23, 1936-March 6, 1836).”

I’ll drink to that!

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Some day there will be new Alamos and each will be asked if they stand with Freedom. how many will stay to the end willing to give their lives for Freedom? i hope some still exist out there who will be like the minute men at Lexington Green, or the men at Fort McHenry, or those noble few at Little Round Top, and those cooks and bandsmen in the snows of Bastone. Americans all who didn’t have to die but knew that to run would invite a sort of America we have now. Not to worry, there will be time for heroics soon enough I fear.

[Owl558]

You know, that’s great and all, but I just want my rent-a-car please. /s

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

From the TEXAS Declaration of Independence from Mexico..

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/texdec.asp

“It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.”

THE RIGHTFUL PROPERTY OF FREEMEN! Even Texas understood it!

As for movies, I like THE LAST COMMAND with Sterling Hayden better than John Wayne’s overblown epic.

[Texas Fossil]

Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top

May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny

May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals

May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet

May they all be soldiers

May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders

Denis Diderot

Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782

Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top

May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny

May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals

May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet

May they all be soldiers

May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders

Denis Diderot

Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782