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Including some specifics I wasn’t aware of..... https://www.historynet.com/skeleton...CBOLifMPDy8jWKT_7ACF43h58qXUxB48_P3erZHMAs to the specifics of the present-day Alamo, the good news is they are building a replica of the cannon emplacement complete with replica 18-pounder at the southwest corner of the original mission footprint, which is now all the way across the Alamo Plaza on the far side of the street. This was where Travis fired the opening cannon shot of the siege. This is important because it stakes a claim to representing that this is an actual battlefield instead of the weapons-free “the fall of the Alamo was just one day in the hundred year history of a Spanish/indigenous mission” renovation plan that had originally been proposed.
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"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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This was interesting. Thanks for posting.
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Why does the author call them "Texians"?
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Neat piece of history, thanks.
I got to visit the Alamo once. SA has lots of history.
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Why does the author call them "Texians"? Google my friend: texians
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One of my best vacations was to visit the Alamo. It did burst my image of the Alamo from the movies though! Glad they are restoring it.
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Fascinating..... Thanks for posting. If I'm ever in that area the Alamo is on my "must see" list. Until I was in my mid 20's I had imagined it was still out in the boonies like in the movies. That was when I first talked to folks who had visited it.
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I do not believe the term "Texican" was all that popular in its day. Tho it was used a bit. I believe it is more of a Hollywoodism.
Most All comtemporary accounts I’ve read use Texian
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Of the defenders, 32 from Tennessee. I made mention to a group of legislators last week that in many contest re Liberty in the formative days of the Republic that called for blood to be the ink of check written, Tennessee had stood at the fore front, hence our moniker of The Volunteer State, (common misconception that it has something to do with the bunch of criminals trying to play football in Knoxville). Kings Mountain and the Over Mountain Men during the Revolution, Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Battle of New Orleans during the "War of 1812". The Alamo during the Texas Independence struggle.
Lest we forget, on to the Battle of Athens, (google that one).
I was trying too pump them up to stand in interposition to the Feds against the coming storm by raising the specter of Heroes past. To my chagrin none had heard of the first two or the last, a product of our public education system.
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Overmountain men are some of my most respected fellows!!!
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Also Coffee’s and Carroll’s boys at Chalmette!!
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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
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Thanks for the update Mike!!!
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Fascinating..... Thanks for posting. If I'm ever in that area the Alamo is on my "must see" list. Until I was in my mid 20's I had imagined it was still out in the boonies like in the movies. That was when I first talked to folks who had visited it. You’ll really enjoy it. It’s a reverent and emotional place.
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Thanks for posting this, Mike. Worriedman, I fear that now, there are very few people left with the metal and fortitude of the Alamo garrison or the WW2 veterans who rescued themselves and their families from the petty tyrants of Athens. After seeing this election stolen and doing nothing, I feel Like digging a hole, crawling in, and pulling the dirt in over me. We no longer deserve the title of Americans. 7mm
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Birdwatcher, thank you for that interesting link on the Alamo siege and non-survivors. Some of my relatives still live in Texas. They are proud to be Texians.
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Thanks for putting that up. The Alamo was on our must see list the first time we visited SA. Just an eerie feeling standing in the Chapel. We have returned to the site a few times over the years and I am glad the restoration is moving forward in the manner outlined. Touring quite a few counties in Europe it is easy to see that important historical sites like the Alamo need to be kept intact.
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Of the defenders, 32 from Tennessee. I made mention to a group of legislators last week that in many contest re Liberty in the formative days of the Republic that called for blood to be the ink of check written, Tennessee had stood at the fore front, hence our moniker of The Volunteer State, (common misconception that it has something to do with the bunch of criminals trying to play football in Knoxville). Kings Mountain and the Over Mountain Men during the Revolution, Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Battle of New Orleans during the "War of 1812". The Alamo during the Texas Independence struggle.
Lest we forget, on to the Battle of Athens, (google that one).
I was trying too pump them up to stand in interposition to the Feds against the coming storm by raising the specter of Heroes past. To my chagrin none had heard of the first two or the last, a product of our public education system. Yep. some of my favorite Texans came from Tennessee, including my great grandfather.
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There is a reason the wetback greasers of today still suffer incrimination from Santa Anna's antics.
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There is a reason the wetback greasers of today still suffer incrimination from Santa Anna's antics. Amen brother
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