[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

You are correct, a little known fact was how the tiny Texas Navy was able to keep the Mexicans from landing supplies and people to aid Santa Anna.
After we won at San Jacinto and had released Santa Anna, our Navy was in very bad shape.
Texas bought a steamboat that was damaged in a hurricane,
They put cannons on the steamboat and used it to do more damage to the Mexican Navy which was only sailing vessels.

Santa Anna was making noise about invading Texas again.
But the Texas Navy raiding around the Yucatan kept the Mexicans busy and they did not invade Texas.
When Texas joined the United States they gave a lot of land in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado to the United States to repay their large debt incurred during the Texas Revolution.

[NewJerseyJoe]

ping for later