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To: Midnitethecat

> Robert E Lee and Davy Crockett <

I visited the San Jacinto Battlefield last year where Santa Anna was defeated. In the museum I was most impressed by Davy Crockett’s knife, the one he used at the Alamo after he ran out of ammunition. Davy Crockett’s knife very closely resembles the wood handled paring knife my wife uses for peeling potatoes. It couln’t have been more that 6-1/2” inches from point to the handle’s butt.


120 posted on 01/03/2018 10:15:37 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Men stand up for freedom; slaves kneel before their masters.)
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To: BuffaloJack

I saw the knife too at the Alamo.


149 posted on 01/03/2018 10:41:00 AM PST by Midnitethecat
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To: BuffaloJack

He didn’t use a Bowie Knife?”


153 posted on 01/03/2018 10:42:22 AM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: BuffaloJack

Why would his knife be at San Jacinto? Makes no sense.

Great-great grandpa was scouting with cousins when they came upon a Mexican “peasant” after the Battle of San Jacinto and wanted to shoot him on the spot.


177 posted on 01/03/2018 12:04:49 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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