04-21-2018, 12:36 PM | #1 |
Gaw' Blimey Limey
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San Jacinto Day
Today is the anniversary of the most decisive day in Texas history...and perhaps in post-revolutionary U.S. history, the day in 1836 when the rag-tag army of Texians whacked the much larger Mexican army in just 18 minutes.
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04-21-2018, 03:14 PM | #2 |
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But, but they were a professional army that had just put down revolts in other parts of Mexico, but, but.
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04-21-2018, 03:47 PM | #3 |
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I've been to that battleground many times when I was a kid living in Houston, TX, and as memory serves me the Mexican army was caught at prayers on a Sunday morning, muskets stacked, etc. The Texans killed them like a bunch of hogs in the corn field!
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04-21-2018, 04:24 PM | #5 |
Gaw' Blimey Limey
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Strategy - wait till the bastards are relaxin' (I heard it was at siesta time) and then come
in hootin', hollerin...and shooting. Met a forensic sculptress last year who has done head/facial reconstructions on skulls from San Jacinto (all messican as the Texians did go on a killing spree even after Santa Ana ceded the fight), as well as the Alamo and Fort Craig in New Mexico. If you want to read the story on the Fort Craig deal I can send it to yer as a pdf attachment to an email if you send me a PM. |
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