To: deport
The following sketch shows that in effect the two armies were basically confined to a piece of land with no escape route. General Houston and his men followed Santa Anna all across Texas, but when they got here, both armies had climbed into the ring.
16 posted on
03/21/2010 8:42:21 AM PDT by
GregoTX
(Beans, Bullets, Batteries.)
To: GregoTX
Thanks for the photo’s. Great view of the monument with lay of the land.
17 posted on
03/21/2010 8:49:34 AM PDT by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
To: GregoTX
folks forget, well Texans do not but, after the battle at the Alamo,SantaAna ordered his men to dismember and set fire to the dead and wounded.
Makes me weep just typing this
19 posted on
03/21/2010 9:10:23 AM PDT by
advertising guy
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