This just copied from last year's Google+ post.
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INDEPENDENCE DAY!
I view this as "Texas History Season" . It
began in December 1835 when, due mainly to Ben Milam's efforts, General
Cos surrendered San Antonio de Bexar to rather disorganized anglo
colonists. General Cos and his solders were given medical aid and
paroled under the condition that they return to Mexico and not contest
the revolution. Santa Ana, with Cos and troops, marched on Bexar the
following February eventually laying siege to Texans congregated in the
Alamo. Today, March 2 1836, Texan representatives declared independence
in Washington-on-Brazos. The Alamo was only a few days from falling with
essentially all defenders being killed. My "Texas History Season" ends
45 days after the fall of the Alamo with the Battle of San Jacinto.
Five months and the world changed.
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Well, I feel compelled to add a few words about The Runaway Scrape. Essentially all anglos fleeing in mass toward Louisiana, abandoning their homes, burning crops and buildings to deny them to the Mexicans. Driving livestock before them. Fleeing for their lives. Terrorized by the massacres at Alamo and Goliad. Frustration at Houston for not turning and fighting; ever retreating before Santa Ana.
Being Texan is SOMETHING
ReplyDeleteMy great-great uncle, a Captain Frels (think Frelsburg) was at San Jacinto. A sea captain, he brought many from German states to Galveston. His sister married a Fertsch; their three sons had 30 sons and daughters in the general Hallettsville area.
ReplyDeleteAn Allen Damron/Tim Henderson song about San Jacinto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzSEQRqprC0
Art
Thanks, Art!
DeletePuzzled by the song, I googled it up:
http://www.sonsofdewittcolony.org/batsanjacinto.htm
That's as good a description of The Battle as I have read. "Will You Come to the Bower" was a popular song of the time and played during The Battle. Thanks again for the stimulation.
You are justifiably proud of your Texanness. My earliest Texan ancestors did not arrive until 1839.
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