Posted on 04/21/2011 10:44:54 AM PDT by bgill
Just wanted to remind everyone that today is San Jacinto Day. April 21, 1836 was the day the Texicans won the final battle for independence from Mexico.
Here are two links that describe the battle and capture of Santa Anna. The first was written by grandpappy Bostick and the second is a more rip roaring version.
http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/miscmemoirs.htm#bostick
"All three of us who had captured him were angry at ourselves for not killing him out on the prairie to be consumed by the wolves and buzzards. We took him to General Houston, who was wounded and lying under a big oak tree."
http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/sanjacintotaylor.htm
Why haven't more TEXANS put this out there for us!!! << hanging Lone Star State Banner >>
The Battle of San Jacinto -April 21, 1836 (175 years ago today)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2708193/postsPosted on Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:40:26 AM
God Bless Texas!
san jacinto is part of my life....USS San Jacinto, cvl30 in the Pacific war in WWll....plank owner..JK.
Would have been a very bad idea. Houston got SA to call off his troops elsewhere in the state and sign a treaty giving Texas independence. None of which would have happened if he were dead.
God Bless Texas!
Here is one of the most beautiful renditions of The Yellow Rose of Texas I've ever heard. It is almost a prayer. Hoyt Axton, John Hartford and others.
It's odd how when listening to it there seems to be so much dust in the room I have wipe my eyes...
Sylvester is the one in the back with a rife and red kerchief. Cousin Robison is on the horse. Bostick is the old man with a beard on the left side behind the man in the white shirt and suspenders. Bostick was 16 at the time but the portrait was painted years after the fact and for some strange reason, the artist Huddle painted him as he was in "present" time. Go figure.
The ONLY Country (Texas, it’s time to dump the US ‘cause it’s on the final swirl of the toilet bowl)to live in!!!!
Now all we need to do is really seal the border since the feds can’t figure it out and TAKE BACK OUR STATE...
Screw the cinco dy mayo garbage.
Isn’t this the battle Santa Ana fled dressed in drag?
sarc/
Hell yeah! God bless Texas!
“San Jacinto Day - April 21, 1836 can no longer be observed due the defeat of Mexican Troops.
Unlike Cinco de Mayo any observation of San Jacinto would be racist.”
Nah, you’re being too logocentric. All we have to do to bring this into solidarity with the legitimate aspirations of the revolutionary students and workers is alter the language:
“Today is San Jacinto Day, when we celebrate the heroic if temporarily futile resistance of the Mexican People’s Army to the imperialist white male invaders.”
Much respect to you sir and thank you for your service....
Thanks for the post!
God bless TEXAS!
The Mexicans did fine in that battle. Mexican bacteria did even better. The French were wiped out by amoebic dysentery, and I am sure, several other forms of "Montezuma's Revenge."
Great day for beer marketing.
That's the myth but not quite the truth. He was really dressed in a Mexican soldier's shirt covering his general's attire. Bostick wanted to shoot him on the spot and if he hadn't given Sylvester the Mason handshake, history would never have known what happened to Santa Anna. He also gave Houston the Mason handshake so Houston didn't run him through either. But then, Mrs. Susannah Dickenson was spared at the Alamo because her husband put his Masonic apron around the baby and stood them on the wall of the Alamo so I suppose it's all good. Santa Ana released them to spread the word of the fall of the Alamo and on the way to Gonzalez, she met up with Cousin Karnes (Karnes City, Karnes County, TX) to whom she told what had happened.
Back at San Jacinto, Santa Ana, out of respect for letting him live, gave his gold trimmed jacket and pants to Sylvester or Cousin Robinson (don't remember right now). Coincidently, that story ends up on the other side of the family. It was tradition that his uniform was passed around family and friends for grooms to wear at their weddings. One such wedding was at Crockett's son's home next door to where my grandfather grew up. The pants were lost but I think the jacket is still out there somewhere.
I refuse to say who shot the finger of Davy Crockett's wife, Elizabeth Crockett's statue (the smallest state park in TX).
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