The Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836)

Tall Men With Long Rifles 1935 ^ | 1935 | Creed Taylor to James T. DeShields

[patriot08]

SAN JACINTO, birthplace of Texas liberty.

San Jacinto, one of the world’s decisive battles.

San Jacinto, where, with cries of "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" Sam Houston and his ragged band of 910 pioneers routed Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, President and Dictator of Mexico and self-styled "Napoleon of the West," with his proud army, and changed the map of North America!

The actual battle of San Jacinto lasted less than twenty minutes, but it was in the making for six years. It had its prelude in the oppressive Mexican edict of April 6, 1830, prohibiting further emigration of Anglo-Americans from the United States to Texas; in the disturbance at Anahuac and in the battle of Velasco, in 1832; in the imprisonment of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," in Mexico in 1834. Immediate preliminaries were the skirmish over a cannon at Gonzales; the capture of Goliad; the "Grass Fight," and the siege and capture of San Antonio . . . all in 1836. The Texas Declaration of Independence at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, officially signalized the revolution

The San Jacinto Monument is a 567.31-foot (172.9 m)[1] high column located on the Houston Ship Channel in Harris County, Texas near the city of Deer Park. The monument is topped with a 220-ton star that commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. The monument, constructed between 1936 and 1939 and dedicated on April 21, 1939, is the world's tallest monumental column and is part of the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site.

By comparison, the Washington Monument is 555 feet 5⅛ inches tall. The column is an octagonal shaft faced with Texas Cordova shellstone, topped with a 34-foot (10 m) Lone Star - the symbol of Texas. Visitors can take an elevator to the monument's observation deck for a view of Houston and the USS Texas.

The San Jacinto Museum of History is located inside the base of the monument, and focuses on the history of the Battle of San Jacinto and Texas culture and heritage. The San Jacinto Battlefield, of which the monument is a part, was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1960, and is therefore also automatically listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2] It was designated an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1992.[3]

A panel on the side of the monument at San Jacinto today underscores the importance of the battle after more than a century and a half of reflection: "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."

[AuntB]

I wonder what these good men would have to say about this:

Thousands Expected to Rally for Immigration Overhaul in Washington TODAY

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2476087/posts

[1ofmanyfree]

Thank you for posting. Saved. Bookmarked.

[smokingfrog]

You can read all of it here.

Secretary of War Rusk's Report on the Battle of San Jacinto

[fishtank]

Aggie Muster thread - 2010 - San Jacinto Day

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2497470/posts

[Carlucci]

A big Don’t-Mess-With-Texas Bump!

[Texas Fossil]

BTT

This is the day that made this great State possible.

Always remember San Jacinto.

[smokingfrog]

Bump for 2011

[Texas Fossil]

Thank you for the reminder sir. Will post something tomorrow morning.

[smokingfrog]

On the TX board, re_nortex mentioned that he wanted to post something.

[re_nortex]

On the TX board, re_nortex mentioned that he wanted to post something.

I'll now defer that to those who have longer tenure here on FR and are native Texans (although I moved here by choice, I was regretfully not fortunate enough to be born here).

My plans were to commemorate the 175th anniversary by posting an article about the Battle of San Jacinto from a faculty member at Texas A&M. I also intended to compare how much more significant this victory over tyranny was over the so-called "Earth Day" (also on April 21) celebrated by liberals, fascists and environ-whackos.

I'll be looking forward to the post by one of you with better credentials than I have. It's a day that should be respectfully honored not only by Texans but by all patriots who truly cherish liberty and freedom.

[davetex]

re, you are a true Texan. Never doubt it, never question it. Texas is in your DNA.

Fossil, thanks for posting this. The history of Texas has always been a huge part of my life.

God Bless Texas. May She live forever.

[re_nortex]

Texas is in your DNA.

Actually, I came very close to being a native Texan since my mom was here in Texas where I was conceived and where my dad was stationed. My father was KIA in the early months of WWII and my mom then moved to Pennsylvania (where my dad's family was from) and that's why I happened to have been born there unfortunately.

I'll add that while I was a kid in elementary school, a little girl whose father was transferred from the Beaumont area to Pittsburgh absolutely charmed me. She was so sweet, well-mannered and had that unforgettable, adorable Texas accent. She brought in a little Texas flag for me and I used to wave it around during recess on the playground. I knew that by accident of birth I'll just have to live with Pennsylvania on my BC but Texas was and is in my DNA.

God Blessed Texas

[Texas Fossil]

I am happy for any good posts related, from whatever source.

From a native who can say that some of my ancestors were born in Texas during the Republic:

“Texas is not where you were born, but a State of Mind, Heart and Attitude”

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I am not a decendant of those who fought to liberate Texas, but am planning to post an excerpt from a website of those who are. Unless I miscalculated, this is the 175th Anniversity of the Battle of San Jacinto.

[re_nortex]

I am not a decendant of those who fought to liberate Texas, but am planning to post an excerpt from a website of those who are. Unless I miscalculated, this is the 175th Anniversity of the Battle of San Jacinto.

Yes...we're just hours away from the 175th anniversary of that blessed day. The working title I was planning for my post was:

Triumphant Texans Topple Tyrant! Victory at San Jacinto: 175th Anniversary

Feel free to steal it or adapt it for your posting. I'll be eagerly watching for it.

The paragraph from the Texas A&M site (see above) that says so much is:

San Jacinto! San Jacinto! The Mexicans are whipped and Santa Anna a prisoner." The scene that followed beggars description. People embraced, laughed and wept and prayed, all in one breath. As the moon rose over the vast flower-decked prairie, the soft southern wind carried peace to tired hearts and grateful slumber. As battles go, San Jacinto was but a skirmish; but with what mighty consequences! The lives and the liberty of a few hundred pioneers at stake and an empire won! Look to it, you Texans of today, with happy homes, mid fields of smiling plenty, that the blood of the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto sealed forever. Texas, one and indivisible!

I almost weep like John Boehner :-) when I think of the brave Texans who fought for liberty and freedom.

[Texas Fossil]

That event 175 years ago cemented a people and put in place a pattern of behavior that exists no where else in the U.S.

If those who are now scheming to destroy the U.S. think they will do that easily, they are going to learn a painful lesson. Men who love freedom more than their life still exist and will not be subjected.

As Sam Houston said: “Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”

Some things simply do not change.