One this day in history

[greybeard]

March 6, 1836. One hundred eighty five..............holding back five thousand. five days, six days-eight days, ten, Travis held and held again.
With his banners a-dancin'
In the dawn's golden light
Santa Anna came prancing On a horse that was black as the night
now the cannons are silent and there's rust on each sword and the small band of soldiers lie asleep in the arms of the Lord.

In the southern part of Texas
Near the town of San Antone
Like a statue on his pinto rides a cowboy all alone
And he sees the cattle grazing where a century before
Santa Anna's guns were blazing and the cannons used to roar
And his eyes turn sorta misty
And his heart begins to glow
And he takes his hat off slowly
To the men of Alamo
To the thirteen days of glory
At the siege of Alamo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyu3OIn5A00

 

[Deepsouth]

Where The Very Same Cottonwoods Grow: http://youtu.be/rBEJVdtNcRs

 

[dieselbeef]

Selma is overshadowing it

 

[Caustic Burno]

Micajah Autry died that day defending the wall.
His letters back home are the reason my bunch migrated to Texas.
Some of his letters are on display at the Alamo today.

 

[dieselbeef]

the prez wont be at the Alamo...shame shame

 

[TexasBred]

the prez wont be at the Alamo...shame shame

Neither was the governor of Texas.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

the prez wont be at the Alamo...shame shame

I wouldn't want him there anyway..one thing though ,those ears would keep that coon skin from slipping over his eyes..

 

[dieselbeef]

the prez wont be at the Alamo...shame shame

Neither was the governor of Texas.

hard to find much give a poop bout history aint it

 

[TexasBred]

the prez wont be at the Alamo...shame shame

Neither was the governor of Texas.

hard to find much give a poop bout history aint it

It's not a holiday and not a lot to celebrate when all our guys got killed at the Alamo and the survirors at Goliad were butchered.....We know the day it ended and we honor their memory.."Remember the Alamo... Remember Goliad".

 

[Bigfoot]

I have always admired you Texans rich history, and the pride you have in your state.

 

[Caustic Burno]

This inscription on the San Jacinto Monument says it all

On this field on April 21, 1836 the Army of Texas commanded by General Sam Houston, and accompanied by the Secretary of War, Thomas J. Rusk, attacked the larger invading army of Mexicans under General Santa Anna. The battle line from left to right was formed by Sidney Sherman's regiment, Edward Burleson's regiment, the artillery commanded by George W. Hockley, Henry Millard's infantry and the cavalry under Mirabeau B. Lamar. Sam Houston led the infantry charge.
With the battle cry, "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" the Texans charged. The enemy taken by surprise, rallied for a few minutes then fled in disorder. The Texans had asked no quarter and gave none. The slaughter was appalling, victory complete, and Texas free! On the following day General Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, self-styled "Napoleon of the West," received from a generous foe the mercy he had denied Travis at the Alamo and Fannin at Goliad.
Citizens of Texas and immigrant soldiers in the Army of Texas at San Jacinto were natives of Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal and Scotland.
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-American 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.