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Remember The Alamo! (166 Men Died For Freedom - March 6, 1836)
March 6, 2009 | Robert A Cook

Posted on 03/06/2009 7:49:34 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE

In the face of increasing terror attacks on our rights and our freedoms from the media and their anointed deities in Washington, it is important that we remember our history.

And those who died looking at the guns of oppression for many days, but who refused to quit.

-- And, in Goliad a few days before, remember also those who were mercilessly slaughtered AFTER meekly surrendering to the same invading horde of despots. Those deaths prove that "Quitting" and "Negotiations" are a fast way to death.

not peace.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Tennessee; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: alamo; amnesty; goliad; guadalupehidalgo; sovereignty
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Home of the Brave...


41 posted on 03/06/2009 9:35:30 PM PST by Tolkien (Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Amen


42 posted on 03/06/2009 10:09:31 PM PST by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: vetvetdoug

Same here vet. A lot of those Tennesseans at the Alamo were from Madison County and Chester County


43 posted on 03/06/2009 10:21:49 PM PST by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: Fiddlstix

Nice map of the Republic of Texas, but I think they originally annexed everything west to the Pacific and everything south to Central America. Couldn’t enforce it obviously


44 posted on 03/06/2009 10:28:14 PM PST by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Remember the Angel of Goliad too!

Goliad’s Balm

http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/goliadangel.htm


45 posted on 03/06/2009 10:46:22 PM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Memphis Moe

Alamo Defender.

Miller, Thomas R. (Tennessee)

IIRC, Thomas had relocated to Gonzales, Texas prior to joining the force at the Alamo.

I salute my kin...


46 posted on 03/07/2009 12:22:37 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Charter Member, 58 Million Club)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

I am a Texan and every April 30th I also give a nod to the French Foreign Legion by raising a glass to the men at Camerone, Mexico, 1862.

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47 posted on 03/07/2009 12:30:40 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Remember The Alamo!!


48 posted on 03/07/2009 12:39:30 AM PST by BlessingsofLiberty
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

bttt


49 posted on 03/07/2009 12:43:23 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: Memphis Moe

Great list,,,

I saw one that had (Unknown Louisiana),,,(4-5?)...


50 posted on 03/07/2009 2:44:21 AM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Memphis Moe

Thank you for posting. Note that most of those listing a Texas birthplace also have Hispanic names. Texas would, of course, been part of Mexico when they were born and these men would have been the modern equivalents of Americans of Hispanic background who value what America stands for more that the views of what their racial identity assigns them to think by Mecha and La Raza.


51 posted on 03/07/2009 5:50:11 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
We had a little skirmish earlier at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200661/posts over whether the Alamo was reverent or not--

Decide for yourself... who won

52 posted on 03/07/2009 5:56:06 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Vigilanteman

A BUMP for Texas.


53 posted on 03/07/2009 6:06:28 AM PST by EternalVigilance ("Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair..." - G. Washington)
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To: JimC214
I have relatives that have lived in that part of Texas for the better part of 100 years. One of them was an amateur historian and studied the Alamo. She felt that the Mexicans lost more like 600-700 men. This is based upon local stories of how big the cemetery was and how many bodies were thrown into graves. Her other point was that no army could do a frontal assault on that type of fortification and only lose 300 men. She always said Crocket survived and faced Santa Ana and was then executed. Many Mexicans in the area thought it was wrong to execute the survivors because they fought with honor.

In any case the details are not that important to me. The fact that they drew a line and placed their lives on it - even though they thought help was on the way - is the important thing. They had ample opportunity to surrender and did not. The other point that many overlook is that many - mostly the Tennesseans came because they felt their way of life was being destroyed and they were just pissed and felt out of place. They just wanted a fight. Seems many feel that way today.

Remember the Alamo.

Remember Goliad.

And always remember the great victory at San Jacinto.

54 posted on 03/07/2009 6:16:13 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (You want me to buy heavy metal? Metallica?)
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To: re_tail20
Cecil Adams (wtf is he?) is free to make up whatever story he likes - but he'd best not try to sell this one in Texas.

By most contemporaneous accounts (note to Cecil: this means "written at that time"), the Alamo had been under seige for several days prior to Santa Anna's arrival by a force of perhaps 1500, and they had tried several assaults on the Alamo without success.

Read the letters from Col. Wm. Travis from that time. The most interesting one says, indicating that some things in San Antonio haven't changed from his day to this:

"The citizens of this municipality are all our enemies except those who have joined us heretofore; we have but three Mexicans now in the fort; those who have not joined us in this extremity, should be declared public enemies, and their property should aid in paying the expenses of the war."

55 posted on 03/07/2009 8:27:31 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Memphis Moe

Thank you!


56 posted on 03/07/2009 8:46:40 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Memphis Moe
Interesting note: That letter, specifically written BY a witness INSIDE that Alamo (the commander of the garrison) did call out the “continual Bombardment & cannonade” he was subjected to.

Definitely not rifle (musket) fire alone.

So, what are we to make of the single report that claims no cannon reached the site until after the Alamo was taken by the Mexicans? If the commander were exaggerating - possible, nut he equally likely to be immediately called out for his exaggerations (his fears!) as a liar by his own commander, his own men, and his contemporaries had he survived the battle!

57 posted on 03/07/2009 8:51:46 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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