Happy San Jacinto Day Texas

Texas State Historical Society ^ | 8/21/1836 | General Sam Houston

[GregoTX]

Happy San Jac Day Texas

Remember The Alamo

Remember Goliad

Remember the Republic

[N. Theknow]

Thank you Emily West.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

Thank you for your excellent post. I also enjoyed your home page.

[Verginius Rufus]

April 21 is also the anniversary of the founding of Rome (at least according to later Roman belief). Of course, Rome wasn't built in a day. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, and remember semper ubi sub ubi.

[farming pharmer]

Nice post. Thank you.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, Remember the Alamo, BUT

More important:

Remember San Jacinto, 18 minutes that spawned a Republic.

God Bless the US, God Bless Texas, God Bless your family and mine.

[Mouton]

Victory or Death

Best wishes to all Texans and those who wish they were.

[GregoTX]

[pax_et_bonum]

Thanks for posting.

My grandfather helped to build the San Jacinto Monument.

[fella]

There were a lot of Tejanos with Houston that day.

[Paine in the Neck]

Texas was one of several northern Mexican states which rebelled at Santa Anna's abrogation of the 1824 Constitution and illegal assumption of dictatorial powers. Thanks be that those brave Texians and Tejanos were able to make the Texas revolt stick.

[Night Hides Not]

Thanks for the ping, Grego!

[larryjohnson]

Thank you. I just ordered the free e book.
I chose not to move to San Antonio, Texas Air Force Village, but came to Atlantic Beach, Florida, Fleet Landing. Still LOVE Texas.
Larry

[LoneStar42]

Happy San Jacinto Day.

This is also the day that John Coffee Hays passed in 1883. He’s commonly known as Jack Hays, Texas Ranger.

Posted from the county named in his honor.

[rrrod]

Right...lots of them fought for the Republic.

[expat_panama]

just ordered the free e book.

Me too --both the handbook and the Houston bio:

 

Then I found they got an entire series:

[trying to see if Calibre can turn these pdf's into AZW's...]

[GregoTX]

Remember San Jacinto, 18 minutes that spawned a Republic.

[Verginius Rufus]

If not for the battle of San Jacinto, no independent Texas. If no independent Texas, no US annexation of Texas. If no US annexation of Texas, no Mexican War. If no Mexican War, no War between the States. If no WBTS, slavery might still exist. So the battle of San Jacinto led to the abolition of slavery.

Counterfactual history: the sky's the limit.

[gr8eman]

Great stuff! Was this published in Military History magazine? I remember reading about this some time ago.

[Texas Fossil]

One of my ancestors was born in Texas during the Republic of Texas. He fought in the Civil War and finished that war in a prison in NY. He walked home to Texas when he was released.

He never owned slaves.

Yes, history is connected. But remember Sam Houston “refused” to take Texas out of the United States.

Fact.

My family has owned/operated farms in this county since 1889. None of them or their ancestors ever owned slaves.