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The Alamo fell on this day in 1836.

Remember the Alamo!

Remember Goliad!




The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
 
Posts: 53118 | Location: Texas | Registered: February 10, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Absolutely!

God Bless Texas! And the Aggies, too.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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Stopped by there while in the area a year ago. Incredibly enlightening as to the scale of the "fort". Much smaller and less easily defended than I'd thought, and a broad expanse of land encompassing the battlefield.

Definitely worth visiting if nearby.



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Very brave men fighting a force that was somewhere between 7 and 10 times larger.



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David Crockett: Excuse me, Colonel; we got quite a mare's nest out here. You might want to come out and see.
William Travis: I have to get these dispatches out while there is still time. You can help me place the men, colonel. You and your men will defend the palisade on the west wall.
David Crockett: By 'palisade', you mean that little bunch of sticks out there?
William Travis: Would you prefer another assignment?
David Crockett: Uh, no, no; that was the one I was gonna put in for.



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An interesting slide presentation found here:

https://www.slideshare.net/mob...ges-from-then-to-now


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Thanks, TxJim. I hadn't seen many of those photos.




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God Bless Texas!


Hear hear!

"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas." - Davy Crockett



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Remember the Alamo and never forget Goliad!

Thank you Lord for Texas My Texas


If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. I stand for "We The People ..."
 
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I remember...I was there just last July!

 
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The defenders of the Alamo stood tall when it counted like so many since then.


Bayouman
Never let the enemy pick the battle site.
 
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An account of the Alamo, importance, the battle, etc. from the Handbook of Texas Online by the Texas State Historical Association is found here: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qea02

Not necessarily official, or perhaps accurate in every respect, but better than Walt Disney’s.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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Drug Dealer
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Q: What did Jim Bowie say to Davy Crockett when they woke up and saw Santa Anna's army?

A: "What the fuck, are we pouring concrete today?"



When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
 
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