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Happy San Jacinto Day Texas
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| 8/21/1836
| General Sam Houston
Posted on 04/21/2016 4:52:09 AM PDT by GregoTX
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Happy San Jac Day Texas
Remember The Alamo
Remember Goliad
Remember the Republic
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:52:09 AM PDT
by
GregoTX
To: GregoTX
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:00:51 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: GregoTX
Thank you for your excellent post. I also enjoyed your home page.
To: GregoTX
April 21 is also the anniversary of the founding of Rome (at least according to later Roman belief). Of course, Rome wasn't built in a day. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, and remember semper ubi sub ubi.
To: GregoTX
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:24:37 AM PDT
by
farming pharmer
('Your work will warm you' - overheard in a Soviet gulag...)
To: GregoTX
Yes, Remember the Alamo, BUT
More important:
Remember San Jacinto, 18 minutes that spawned a Republic.
God Bless the US, God Bless Texas, God Bless your family and mine.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:25:33 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: GregoTX
Victory or Death
Best wishes to all Texans and those who wish they were.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:25:48 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
To: Night Hides Not; Windflier
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:28:42 AM PDT
by
GregoTX
To: GregoTX
Thanks for posting.
My grandfather helped to build the San Jacinto Monument.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:33:22 AM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
To: GregoTX
There were a lot of Tejanos with Houston that day.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:33:25 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: GregoTX
Texas was one of several northern Mexican states which rebelled at Santa Anna's abrogation of the 1824 Constitution and illegal assumption of dictatorial powers. Thanks be that those brave Texians and Tejanos were able to make the Texas revolt stick.
To: GregoTX
Thanks for the ping, Grego!
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:37:13 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
To: GregoTX
Thank you. I just ordered the free e book.
I chose not to move to San Antonio, Texas Air Force Village, but came to Atlantic Beach, Florida, Fleet Landing. Still LOVE Texas.
Larry
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:37:42 AM PDT
by
larryjohnson
(FReepersonaltrainer)
To: GregoTX
Happy San Jacinto Day.
This is also the day that John Coffee Hays passed in 1883. He’s commonly known as Jack Hays, Texas Ranger.
Posted from the county named in his honor.
To: fella
Right...lots of them fought for the Republic.
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:05:27 AM PDT
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
To: larryjohnson
just ordered the free e book.Me too --both the handbook and the Houston bio:
Then I found they got an entire series:
[trying to see if Calibre can turn these pdf's into AZW's...]
To: Texas Fossil
Remember San Jacinto, 18 minutes that spawned a Republic.
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:43:18 AM PDT
by
GregoTX
To: Texas Fossil
If not for the battle of San Jacinto, no independent Texas. If no independent Texas, no US annexation of Texas. If no US annexation of Texas, no Mexican War. If no Mexican War, no War between the States. If no WBTS, slavery might still exist. So the battle of San Jacinto led to the abolition of slavery.
Counterfactual history: the sky's the limit.
To: GregoTX
Great stuff! Was this published in Military History magazine? I remember reading about this some time ago.
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:52:35 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
To: Verginius Rufus
One of my ancestors was born in Texas during the Republic of Texas. He fought in the Civil War and finished that war in a prison in NY. He walked home to Texas when he was released.
He never owned slaves.
Yes, history is connected. But remember Sam Houston “refused” to take Texas out of the United States.
Fact.
My family has owned/operated farms in this county since 1889. None of them or their ancestors ever owned slaves.
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:57:19 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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