Posted on 04/21/2014 4:56:10 AM PDT by Helotes
The battle of San Jacinto was the concluding military event of the Texas Revolution. On March 13, 1836, the revolutionary army at Gonzales began to retreat eastward.
One of the eight inscriptions on the exterior base of the San Jacinto Monument reads: "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."
But how many men have ever become president of their nation seven different times?
Within the next 10-15 years the PC crowd will cry out for justice and demand the return of those lands “stolen” from
Mexico or at the very least reparation payments to Mexico.
Thanks Robert.
And remember, Jacinto is pronounced with a “j”, not an “h”.
Switching in the appropriate taglne...
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