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Old 04-21-2010, 08:23 AM
 
Location: Visitation between Wal-Mart & Home Depot
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Can anyone tell me what happened on April 21, 1836?
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Old 04-21-2010, 08:45 AM
 
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The Battle of San Jacinto, and where TX secured it's independence! If I remember correctly, the battle lost very few men and was very short. I minored in history...I should know something about this.
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Old 04-21-2010, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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Happened on the east side of the Houston area.

Someone was having a siesta on the job, too.
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Old 04-21-2010, 09:34 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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I do - but I had relatives fighting there, so it's not like I'd be allowed to forget!
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Old 04-21-2010, 11:07 AM
 
Location: A little suburb of Houston
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Since I can walk out my front door, look down the street and see the monument, I guess I won't forget either. I believe 9 Texans were killed to something like 700 of Santa Anna's troops in a surprise attack. Santa Anna himself was captured at Vince's Bridge a few miles away. There is still a debate over which bridge was Vince's Bridge as the Vince Brothers owned adjacent properties and one had a bridge over Vince Bayou where the other had a bridge ove Simms Bayou. The monument for the capture is at the bridge over Vince Bayou.
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Old 04-21-2010, 12:18 PM
 
Location: I-35
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This was the battle that led to the start spanish american war later for california and the Rio grande valley south of the nueces.

Anna liked black women so the Yellow rose of Texas is famous in this story of San Jacinto.
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Old 04-21-2010, 06:07 PM
 
Location: Greenville, Delaware
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There's no relationship between the Spanish American War, which was fought at the end of the 19th Century, and the Texas Revolution. The Mexican or Mexican-American War grew indirectly out of the Texas Revolution and the annexation of Texas by the USA 10 years later. The war with Spain at the end of the century led to the US taking over the Phillipines in the Pacific, and Puerto Rico and Cuba in the Carribean. Cuba was granted independence very quickly in 1901 but remained under US domination until Fidel Castro's successful rebellion. The Phillipines remained a US territory until the end of WWII, while Puerto Rico of course continues to be a self-governing extension of the USA.
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Old 04-21-2010, 10:50 PM
 
Location: San Antonio-Westover Hills
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Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!
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Old 04-22-2010, 11:26 AM
 
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Goliad could have been avoided...someone decided to surrender.....

Remember the Alamo!
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Old 04-22-2010, 12:19 PM
 
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At the Washburn Tunnel, from the Pasadena side you can steer to the right and go on top of the tunnel rather than in to the tunnel. Over the Washburn Tunnel is the a marker, sponsored by the Daughters of the Revolution or Alamo or whatever they call themselves, that marks the approximate site of the capture of Santa Anna. And yes, a short trek from there in Vince Bridge.
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