To: Ol' Dan Tucker
Remember the Alamo? I guess Santa Anna won after all, didn't he? Yeah, Santa Ana had a pretty decisive victory there. A+ for your history knowledge, C- for its relevance.
1,852 posted on
03/30/2006 8:36:17 AM PST by
Coop
(Proud founding member of GCA - Gruntled Conservatives of America)
To: Coop
Uh...I would not call the Alamo a "decisive" victory for Santa Anna in the least. While it is true that he killed all the defenders and took the old mission...what he lost in order to do that, both in the march to the battle, and in the battle itself was a horrendous cost.
And that is not to mention the ire of the people he raised against whom he was fighting that ultimately contributed to his overall loss of the war, and Texas.
1,857 posted on
03/30/2006 8:43:04 AM PST by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: Coop
Yeah, Santa Ana had a pretty decisive victory there. A+ for your history knowledge, C- for its relevance.The relevence is that way back when, Texans actually fought to protect their lands from the invading Mexicans.
Now, they throw up their arms and surrender.
Or, is Bush not a Texan and is he not surrendering to Vicente Fox?
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