The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of San Jacinto (4/21/1836)

Thanks for the recommendation. Read a Sci-Fi book about Texas once that I really liked called "The Texas-Israeli War" The premise is that Texas secedes from the Union and the US hires an Israeli mercenary army to get back the president that the Texas Rangers kidnapped.

LOL! Shades of the "Road Warrior"

GM, snippy!

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i wrote one of my 3 mini-thesis for my MS on san jacinto.

FRANKLY, it wasn't much of a battle to have accomplished so much.

offhand the only other battle of like importance, but of little action, was CARABOBO, where Simon Boliver DESTROYED the Spanish army!<P.free dixie,sw

I spent the last few weeks in Texas...drove all the way across it in the last few days. Went from Odessa to Andrews, across east to Big Springs and then down to San Angelo. Then south to Fredricksburg and across through Austin. Then I angled northeast up into the pineywoods to Tyler and Marshall, crossing into Arkansas at Texarkana. All of that equaled about 800 miles. (I'm in DC now for CPAC)

Spent alot of time in Texas in my younger days, and these last weeks have been a reminder why I love Texas.

What a great story you've presented to us once again. I never tire of it. A self-governing people crushing a proud tyrant: what could possibly be better!?

On This Day In history

Birthdates which occurred on January 22:
1440 Ivan III the Great, Russian czar (1462-1505)/conquered Lithuania
1561 Francis Bacon England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum)
1592 Pierre Gassendi Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher
1727 Claude-Benigne Balbastre composer
1788 Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron England, romantic poet (Don Juan)
1802 Richard Upjohn US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, New York)
1826 [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1858 Betrice Potter Webb England, economist
1858 Frederick Lugard British captain/baron (Congo)
1875 DW Griffith movie producer/director (Birth of a Nation)
1890 Fred M Vinson Kentucky, 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53)
1899 Guido Kisch Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
1906 Robert E[rvin] Howard US, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror)
1909 Ann Sothern [Harriette Lake], North Dakota, actress (Lady in a Cage, My Mother the Car)
1909 [Sithu] U Thant Burma, 3rd UN Secretary-General (1962-72)
1923 Diana Douglas Devonshire Bermuda, actress (The Cowboys)
1924 J J Johnson composer/jazz trombonist
1924 Margaret Whiting big band singer
1928 Birch Bayh (Senator-D-IN)
1929 Rita Gillespie TV director
1931 Sam Cooke Clarksdale MS, gospel & blues singer (You Send Me, Another Saturday Night, Twisting The Night Away)
1934 Bill Bixby San Francisco CA, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)
1934 Graham Kerr chef (Galloping Gourmet)
1935 Pierre S Du Pont IV (Governor-DE)
1937 Joseph Wambaugh East Pittsburgh PA, police writer (Onion Fields)
1940 John Hurt England, actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express)
1949 Steve Perry Hanford CA, vocalist (Journey-Open Arms, Oh Sherry)
1955 Thomas David Jones Baltimore MD, PhD/Astronaut (STS 59, 68, 80, sk 98)
1957 Mike Bossy NHL forward (New York Islanders)
1959 Linda Blair St Louis MO, actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St)
1973 Deon Minor Paris Texas, 400m runner
1976 third voice born
1979 Melanie Winiger Miss Switzerland-Universe (1997)
1982 Kevin Sheridan actor (Soul Man)
2179 Hikaru Walter Sulu San Francisco CA.

Deaths which occurred on January 22:
1336 Louis III last Earl of Loon, dies
1552 Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason
1640 Erasmus Quellinus I Flemish wood carver, dies at about 55
1798 Lewis Morris US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 71
1850 Vincenzo Pallotti Italian saint, dies at 54
1901 Victoria [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901), dies at 81
1922 Benedictus XV [Giacomo Markies D Chiesa], pope (1914-22), dies at 67
1950 Alan Hale Sr actor (The Seahawk, Yellowstone), dies at 57
1968 Duke Kahanamoku Hawaii, 100m swimmer (Olympics-gold-1912, 20, 24), dies at 77
1969 Judy Garland singer/actress (Wizard of Oz), dies at 48 of an overdose
1973 Lyndon B Johnson President (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64
1979 Ali Hassan Salameh [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
1981 Fannie Thomas US, dies at 113
1992 Ali Amini PM of Iran (1961-62), dies
1994 Irving B Kahn inventor (teleprompter), dies at 76
1994 Telly Savalas actor (Kojak), dies of prostate cancer at 70
1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy mother of President John F Kennedy, dies at 104
1996 Edward Thomas historian/intelligence expert, dies at 77
1997 Irwin Levine composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), dies at 58

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 FORMAN WILLIAM S.---PIPESTONE MN.
1966 FRENYEA EDMUND M.---UKIAH CA.
[LOST AT SEA]
1966 GRISSETT EDWIN R.---SAN JUAN TX.
[REMAINS RETURNED 06/89]
1966 SENNETT ROBERT R.---MAR VISTA CA.
1966 TEMPLIN ERWIN B. JR.---HOUSTON TX.
1969 ROSS DOUGLAS A.---TEMPLE CITY CA.
[REMAINS RETURNED IDENTIFIED 03/06/98]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
0871 Battle at Basing Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex
1371 King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
1510 Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
1517 Turks conquer Cairo
1528 England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V
1575 English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd music press monopoly
1584 Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
1588 Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia)
1673 Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
1689 Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
1690 Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
1758 Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East Prussia
1760 Battle at Wandewash India British troops beat French
1771 Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain
1775 Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
1813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
1814 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, New York City NY
1816 Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "The Siege of Corinth"
1837 Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1850 Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in California
1857 National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
1859 Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
1862 Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
1863 Union General Burnside's "Mud March"
1879 James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa
1881 Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
1890 José Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City NY
1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati OH
1901 After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series
1905 "Bloody Sunday"; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1924 KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1924 Baldwin government resigns in England
1930 -35ºF (-37ºC), Mount Carroll IL (state record)
1932 British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
1934 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady MacBeth" premieres in Leningrad
1936 French Laval government falls
1938 "Our Town", Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners NH, performed publicly for 1st time (New Jersey)
1939 Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
1941 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1941 British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
1943 Temperature rises 49ºF (9ºC) in 2 minutes in Spearfish SD
1944 Battle of Anzio (Italy); Allies stopped on the beach
1945 Burma highway reopens
1946 US President sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
1947 KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles CA (IND) begins broadcasting (1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi)
1951 Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
1953 Arthur Miller's "Crucible" premieres in New York City NY
1957 Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai Penisula
1957 Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
1959 USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
1960 Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
1964 World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
1965 US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
1968 "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC(you bet your bippy)
1968 Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
1969 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
1969 Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1970 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight (Pan Am), New York to London in 6½ hours
1972 "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1973 George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1973 Roe vs Wade US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions

1973 US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
1975 Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
1976 Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)
1980 Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
1982 75% of North America is covered by snow (more proof of global warming)
1985 -30ºF (-34ºC), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
1985 Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1985 Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
1988 Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1989 Super Bowl XXIII San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Jerry Rice, San Francisco, Wide Receiver
1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
1992 Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride (good)
1995 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
1998 NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Ukraine : Ukrainian Day (1918)
China : Chinese New Year-The Year of the Monkey (2004/4702)
US : Answer Your Cat's Question Day
US : National Popcorn Day
National Yours, Mine and Ours Month

Religious Observances
Roman Catholic, Anglican : Memorial of St Vincent, martyr/patron of wine growers
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Anastasius, martyr
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Vincent Pallotti, Italian priest, founder

Religious History
1522 German Reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'Love cares for the problems of others as if they were one's own.'
1843 Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Blass, German biblical philologist. His 1896 "Grammar of New Testament Greek" became a foundational work in New Testament studies, and is still in print.
1855 Birth of Carrie Ellis Breck, American Presbyterian poet. Several of her verses later became hymns, including "Help Somebody Today" and "Face to Face with Christ My Savior."
1882 The Fifth Street Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, became the first church in America to be illuminated by electric lighting.
1963 Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'In Jesus Christ, God and man...are already at peace Ä not as enemies but as true companions. In Him salvation is already present and at work.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "People, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?" "

Question of the day...
What makes cheese so confidential that we actually need cheese shredders?

Murphys Law of the day...(Paradox of Selective Equality)
All things being equal, all things are never equal.

Astounding Fact # 56,092...
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

TEXAS PING. Foxhole article of Interest.

WIERD!

free dixie,sw

Morning stand watie. It's amazing the effect a relatively minor event can have. Afer the defeats at the Alamo and Goliad this victory was just what the Texians needed to turn things around, the morale boost for the texians and the fall in morale for the Mexicans made a big differnce for the futere.

Great great great Uncle Elisha was a gunner, too.

CLAPP, ELISHA (ca. 1803-1856?). Elisha Clapp, soldier and farmer, was born in Tennessee about 1803 and immigrated to Texas in 1822; he settled at Nacogdoches.

He enlisted in Capt. Henry Wax Karnes's cavalry company on April 7, 1836, and participated in the battle of San Jacinto.

Afterward he was detached to guard Mexican prisoners.

He was discharged from the army on May 28, 1836. For his service Clapp received a labor of land in Houston County.

On September 10, 1836, he was elected captain of a company of mounted rangers at his home at Mustang Prairie.

Sam Houston, as commander in chief of the Texas army, ordered his company to "range from any point on the Brazos to Mr. Hall's Trading House on the Trinity" to intercept parties of raiding Indians.

What a great story you've presented to us once again. I never tire of it. A self-governing people crushing a proud tyrant: what could possibly be better!?

The history of the United States is full of stories like this and it's a shame so many of our young people are unaware of them, you need to know where you came from to know where you're heading.

1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa

They just had Zulu on the other night. Great movie, I never tire of watching it.

Thanks for the bump, PetroniDE

Good morning/afternoon Foxhole FRiends!

Great thread Sam. Thanks

Your welcome. I try to browse this thread every day. Since it is Texas related, figured ping my abbreviated (and outdated) list.

GM, sam!

YEP!

free dixie NOW,sw

Afternoon ma'am

Good afternoon stand watie!

Good afternoon Valin.