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Simon, the Mexicans didn’t burn San Felipe. The Texians did as part of their scorched earth policy. By the time the first Mexican troops arrived the little town was pretty much gone. Moseley Baker and the militia were across the Brazos on the east bank. Ready to perform a rear guard action on the evacuating townsfolk. Which they did.
Burned the ferry and engaged those first troop arrivals from the east bank.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
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The Texans burned it for the scorched earth. That makes sense.
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Whatever the truth is we're not giving it back. 'nuff said.
The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
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Campfire 'Bwana
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The Texans burned it for the scorched earth. That makes sense. Yes, another interesting fact that will probably not be mentioned in the forthcoming book is during the Fredonian rebellion (Haydon Edwards affair, Nacogdoches) in 1827, the militia of San Felipe was called out. Their captain Horatio Chrisman, on the orders of Empresario Austin marched with a detatchment of Mexican Infantry to put down this attempt at revolution against the Mexican govt.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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For anyone wanting to read up on the topic, Steven L. Hardin’s work, “Texian Iliad” is an excellent place to start, an objective look at the whole war, good and bad.... https://www.abebooks.com/Texian-Ili...o4a2h8QIViLLICh0yJgBcEAQYASABEgLEfPD_BwE
"...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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“The way I explain it,” says Andres Tijerina, a retired history professor in Austin, “is Mexican-Americans [in Texas] are brought up, even in the first grade, singing the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance and all that, and it’s not until the seventh grade that they single us out as Mexicans. And from that point on, you realize you’re not an American. You’re a Mexican, and always will be. The Alamo story takes good, solid, loyal little American kids and it converts them into Mexicans.”
Professor in Austin? You know it has to be correct. The loyal little American kids are converted by guys like this who so want to be woke.
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“The way I explain it,” says Andres Tijerina, a retired history professor in Austin, “is Mexican-Americans [in Texas] are brought up, even in the first grade, singing the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance and all that, and it’s not until the seventh grade that they single us out as Mexicans. And from that point on, you realize you’re not an American. You’re a Mexican, and always will be. The Alamo story takes good, solid, loyal little American kids and it converts them into Mexicans.”
Professor in Austin? You know it has to be correct. The loyal little American kids are converted by guys like this who so want to be woke.
Jim Right Jim! Right you are!! Hell even I learned who Jose Francisco Ruiz, Jose Antonio Navarro, Lorenzo de Zavala, and Juan Seguin were when I was in the seventh grade (back during the Pléistocènes).
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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