Posted on 04/21/2016 4:52:09 AM PDT by GregoTX
you stated: “There were a lot of Tejanos with Houston that day.”
ABSOLUTELY. They were at the Alamo and at San Jacinto!
San.
Jacinto.
Then tell them you've got two more:
Guadaloupe.
Hidalgo.
They're even Spanish words, so los amigos can comprende, si?
“los amigos can comprende, si?”
Indeed. Let them never ever forget. We will not put up with their BS! Period.
A bridge too far there. Aside from the fact that many of the officers on both sides of the Civil War had their first taste of combat (and made their names -- or lost them) during the Mexican War, there was not the slightest causal link between the former and the latter.
Winfield Scott, the early commander of the Union armies, was a hero of Veracruz, where he was assisted by another Civil War commander, one Captain Robert E. Lee. Captain Lee also worked with a scruffy, heavy-drinking quartermaster lieutenant named Hiram Ulysses Grant (later erroneously renamed Ulysses S.). There were many others.
But to assert that the Mexican War somehow spawned the Civil War is patently absurd.
How times have changed in Texas, in the 70’s we were taught, if you are from south Texas your job is keepin the Mexicans in Mexico
If you are from north Texas,your job is keepin the Okies in Oklahoma
In the basement of the monument is a historical archive, and some of his letters donated by the family when he passed are stored there. One of them was from Sam Houston, asking for him to bring Houston's horse and rifle because Houston had to 'travel to the east'.
Never really did figure out why Walling had them in the first place, though. LOL!
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Happy San Jacinto Day, Texas!
The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 would have been larger except that the Northerners in Congress cut back the land we got from Mexico because they were afraid of another slave state being created.
Of course we can't tell how things would have turned out otherwise, whether other issues would have exacerbated the slavery issue to the point of conflict without the Mexican Cession, but it did play a key role.
When I lived in Texas the issue was keeping Alaska from becoming a state, so Texas would remain the largest state. Obviously that was a long, long time ago.
I had an ancestor who was a POW during the Civil War but I don’t know where he was held. He was a Virginian but later moved to Kansas. Even though he is buried in Union Cemetery, his grave has a marker saying “Confederate Veteran.”
We will need another soon. I predict my state turns purple by the 2024 election if not sooner via amnesty.
Mine has been here since 1709 and not one slave was owned.
But those enterprises were not nearly as labor-intensive as cotton production, so the demand for slavery in Texas was more a cultural artifact inherited from its Southern settlers than the economic imperative it was in states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.
I downloaded all 6 free ebooks... what a deal
I’ve never heard slavery offered as a reason for the Texas war for independence, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has suggested it...there always has to be a reason based on white supremacy, white privilege, or white evil to explain everything that happens. The eruption of Vesuvius? Caused by white privilege.
I have ancestors who fought in the American Revolution too.
I was born in TX, but have lived in NM and OK. Both have some fine people in them.
The only difference we have with OK are about Sports. (I am totally disinterested in sports)
Most of NM is not that different from TX, except Abuquerque and Santa Fe. (except for Rio Ariba county, insane)
If TX were to ever leave the US, about 1/2 of the nation would bolt with it.
Those days and many following during Reconstruction were terrible years.
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