Tomorrow (3/2/2021) is Independence Day. I will content myself with posting older links. It turns out, Independence Day comes around EVERY YEAR!
https://wmckemie.blogspot.com/2020/02/i-was-about-to-forget-texas-history.html
https://wmckemie.blogspot.com/2019/02/im-lazy.html
I had a several years long series of carefully crafted Independence Day posts on Google+. Google abandoned Google+ and my archive there was lost. Blogger is poor substitute for Google+.
Texas Independence was declared by selected representatives gathered at Washington On Brazos, now a State Park, in 1836. Texas was in dire straits. The Alamo was besieged and was within a few days of falling with ~170 patriots killed. The Mexican brutality was much in contrast to the leniency shown a few months earlier when Texans captured San Antonio. Captured and surrendered Mexican soldiers were disarmed, given needed medical attention, paroled, and sent walking to Mexico.
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