BTTT!
Posted on 04/21/2006 5:55:37 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
The swallow- tailed Mexican flag, which was taken by Maj. Henry P. Brewster at the Battle of San Jacinto 170 years ago today, is the centerpiece of an annual exhibition of Texas artifacts at the Sterling Bank branch at 4849 Greenville Ave. in Dallas. The tri-color flag, fashioned from three pieces of silk and decorated with a delicately stitched embroidery of the Mexican coat of arms, flew over the battleground headquarters of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
At least it did until April 21, 1836, when Sam Houston's Texians rushed the Mexican camp with cries of "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!"
Today, the swallow-tailed flag – with a V-shaped notch at one end – is part of an exhibit on Texas independence opening on the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Thanks!
LOL. How appropriate!
San Jacinto ping!
Always remember San Jacinto and the Alamo!
Any plans to fly it on a flagpole...upside-down...under an American flag? :)
Happy San Jacinto Day to y'all down there in Texas, from rainy Virginia!
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Texas Independance Ping!
BTTT!
Texas Independence Day Ping!
Raise your glasses today to the valient volunteers, led by Sam Houston, who defeated Santa Anna and secured Texas liberty 170 years ago today!
Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!
Actually, Texas Independence Day is March 2, in honor of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Washington on the Brazos on that date in 1836. Four days later, the Alamo fell, not a very auspicious beginning, but just six weeks later, the battle of San Jacinto won the war for independence.
Unfortunately, in this PC age, Texas public schools are now calling March 2, Texas Flag Day....an absolute disgrace and a sacrilege to our heritage. But it makes all the Mexican kids we are educating on the Texas taxpayers' dime feel better.
Perhaps houeto already has been raising a glass this morning?
Llano Estacado FRiends Texas PING
LOL. Not yet, but it won't be long!
Happy San Jacinto Day!
With all the Mexican flag waving lately, I was certain you would love this story : )
Thanks-----good one.
B/c of the prevailing annexation-invasion mentality, they should guard that precious symbol 24/7.
What's the correct pronunciation of San Jacinto?
The banner of the New Orleans Grays, American volunteers who fought at the Alamo, is preserved at the Mexican military museum, by the way.
"...the correct pronunciation of San Jacinto?"
The "J" was pronounced by everyone when I was growing up, but I'm afraid non-natives (Mexican and American) have pushed it towards "Ha-cinto" in the 25yrs I've been gone.
Kitty, can you anser this one?
Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember the 2006 protest marches!
"anser" LOL..."answer"!
Texans pronounce it "San Jacinto" just like it's spelled with no "h" sound for the "J".
(I grew up with a good view of the San Jacinto Monument out our back door...)
P.S. See resurrected tagline...
And a beautiful sight it is.
The monument marks the location where, on April 21, 1836, General Sam Houston marched his army of about 900 scraggly, bedraggled men across an open plain in broad daylight against a superior force occupying a fortified defensive position.
The "battle" lasted all of eighteen minutes and resulted in 100% casualties to the Mexican side-counting those killed, wounded or captured-- at the cost of nine Texian lives.
The Battle of San Jacinto ranks with Yorktown and Gettysburg in importance of battles affecting the course of history on the North American continent. Houston's remarkable victory gave life and breath to Texas' Declaration of Independence from Mexico and gave rise to a series of events that led to the boundaries of America being expanded from Louisiana to the Pacific Ocean.
The success of the Texas Revolution could not have occurred without the exuberance, optimism, and determination which seems indigenous to the character of Americans of that day and time--especially those who found themselves living the adventure which came to be known as the Republic of Texas!
God Bless our Beloved Texas--- and may the Spirit of San Jacinto be replenished in the heart of every American, for it is a spirit which ensures the inevitability of victory, no matter the odds we face.
Before April 21, 1836, San Jacinto was pronounced
Sahn Ha-SEEN-toe
Since April 21, 1836 San Jacinto has been pronounced
San Juh-SINNA
Thank you both. IOW, whichever way I want to pronounce it . . .
;-)
Total height of San Jacinto monument: 570 ft
Total height of Washington monument: 555 ft 5 1/8 in
(IIRC, it is the three-dimensional Lone Star on top that makes the San Jacinto Monument taller than the Washington Monument...)
Thank you both. IOW, whichever way I want to pronounce it . . ."
Yup....as long as you don't pronounce it "M*E*X*I*C*O" ;)
18 minutes of glory and 170 years of freedom. We ain't givin' it back either!
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NEWS FLASH,MEXICO---WE KICKED YOUR A**--YOU LOST
You're gonna make me tell it? I experienced both the Alamo and the San Jacinto monument-
before birthing my Marine in that great state
with a foreign doctor as observer to watch an American woman give birth. BIIIIG baby (do they come any other way in Texas?) No drugs. After experiencing those two sites, I could have dropped him in a cotton field and singlehandedly kicked all of Mexico's a** : )
Darn Tootin'!!
You are exactly right!:-)
Let them come and take it!!!
LOL---love it---with a minor change.
SUCK IT UP VICENTE
WE KICKED YOUR A**
YOU LOST
Reconquista Armando Navarro 'Ethnic Studies' Professor at the University of California, Riverside Anti-American, Fifth-Column Menace. "Ladies and Gentlemen, what this means (the immigration bill) is a transfer of power, it means control, and it is the young people, the people who are now moving to develop an agenda for the twenty first century they are going to be in a position to really make the promise of what the Chicano movement was all about in terms of self-determination, in terms of empowerment, even in the terms of an Aztlan...."
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