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."
Remember the Alamo!
Happy San Jac Day.
Remember Goliad. Remember the Alamo. Remember the Republic.
(a.k.a. Emily Morgan)
Remember the Alamo!
Remember Goliad!
BTTT
The astonishing thing about Santa Ana is that even after his pitiful performance in this battle, he regained the presidency of Mexico.
Three more times!
Once even after losing the war with the United States and all of what is now our Southwest.
The “Yellow Rose of Texas.” Thank you, Emily!
This picture is hanging in the Capitol Building has names pinned on the men in the front row. The man with the white shirt and suspenders is labeled George Blair, my G G Grandad.
My favorite Texas brag.
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———Remember the Alamo!———
Remember Goliad
And all the fallen that fought to birth this great Republic
Well, that's a stupid claim. If the annexation of Texas led to the Mexican War, then how could the war have resulted in gaining Texas?
The Texans stormed the field, rousted the Mexicans from afternoon lethargy, backed them into the marsh and then killed them hand to hand by the hundreds.
I have visited the site and am forever thankful for the opportunity.
In my mind, the founders of Texas should be included in the model for the new America that will come when the Neoeuropan states of the northeast are purged from the current Union.
Damn. Annexation??? Isn’t that what Russia did with Crimea?
You can be very proud! I am 72 a fourth generation TEXAN
And Remember San Jacinto.
18 minutes that forged a Republic.
Texas Bump!
A&M reminder for Muster.
He was also an investor involved in bringing gum into the US.
And even then the Texans showed the Mexicans more mercy than the Mexicans had shown the Texans earlier.
“With Antonio López de Santa Anna’s return to Texas in 1836, Ware reenlisted in the Texas army on March 12, 1836, and was elected captain of the Second Company of Col. Sidney Sherman’s Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers. He took part in the battle of San Jacinto, where James Washington Winters described his effort “like a wild mustang.”
William Ware
My great,great,great,great grandfather.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwa54
Yea, I’m from meskin descent. Dutch German Irish meskin.
Mine is somewhere in there, too Jesse Walling, 1st Company, 2nd Regiment. I actually have a type written copy of what's in the Texas historical Archives along with copies of letters. Somehow, Jesse wound up with one of Sam Houston's horses and rifles. Never figured out how he got them in the first place.
LOL! Sorry for the ramble. I LOVE history, and remembering their sacrifices kind of drives me to be a hard ass about the legitimate authority of government today.
Thank you SO much for the tip about the painting, too. As much as I loath cities, it would be worth dealing with it to get a look.
Right. Except he tried to use chicle to make tires for carriages as a replacement for rubber. Didn’t work, of course.
One of his compadres in the scheme later succeeded in marketing chicle as chewing gum.
I guess el Presidente got just about everything wrong.
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