[Chad Fairbanks]

Remember the Alamo!

I'm hoping it's democrats inside, and the Republicans are Santa Ana's army ready to wipe them out... anyone got a trumpet?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

anyone got a trumpet?

Don't ask. : )

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOL!

What may seem like a terrible defeat at the Alamo on first blush, was actually a huge victory - because, at San Jacinto, to the battle cry of "Remember the Alamo" over 700 Mexicans were slain and more than that captured along with Santa Anna. From the monument at San Jacinto:

Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world. The freedom of Texas from Mexico won here led to annexation and to the Mexican War, resulting in the acquisition by the United States of the States of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas and Oklahoma. Almost one-third of the present area of the American nation, nearly a million square miles of territory, changed sovereignty.