Battle of San Jacinto
(21 April 1836)
Sam Houston and the meager army of Texas retreated eastward following the fall of the Alamo in the spring of 1836. The troops were becoming increasingly impatient, however, by the time they reached Buffalo Bayou, a few miles southeast of present day Houston.On the morning of the April 19, the Texans crossed over and marched down the right bank of Buffalo Bayou to within half a mile of its confluence with the San Jacinto River. Here, the army prepared their defenses on the edge of a grove of trees. Their rear was protected by timber and the bayou, while before them was an open prairie.
On the following morning, Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna came marching across the prairie in battle array. A volley from the Texan’s “Twin Sisters” artillery brought him to a sudden halt. Falling back to a clump of trees a quarter of a mile distant, Santa Anna formed in line of battle. Colonel Sidney Sherman, at the head of the Texas cavalry, charged the Mexican army, but accomplished little except to inspire the Texans with fresh enthusiasm for the following day.
The 21st of April dawned bright and beautiful. The main forces of the Texas army were there, totaling about 750 men. They faced over 1500 of the enemy, secure and flushed with pride at the offense they had enjoyed for the previous few weeks against the Texans. Early in the morning, Houston sent Deaf Smith, the celebrated Texas spy, with two or three men, to destroy Vince’s bridge over which the Mexican army had passed, thus cutting off their only available escape.
When Houston’s long awaited order to advance was given, the Texans did not hesitate. When within seventy yards the word “fire” was given, the Texan shouts of “Remember the Alamo” and “Remember Goliad” rang along the entire line. Within a short time, 700 Mexicans were slain, with another 730 taken as prisoners. The battle for Texas was won.
A panel on the side of the monument at San Jacinto today underscores the importance of the battle after more than a century and a half of reflection: “Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world. The freedom of Texas from Mexico won here led to annexation and to the Mexican War, resulting in the acquisition by the United States of the States of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas and Oklahoma. Almost one-third of the present area of the American nation, nearly a million square miles of territory, changed sovereignty.”
And here’s the deal folks, we’re gonna have to kick their asses all over again, except this time it won’t be just Texas…
It’s going to be the entire United States…
We can either kick em out or resign ourselves to the fact that the once proud USA has become Norte Mexico…
“From the Halls of Montezuma,” part of the Marine Corps Hymn. We need to do this again and this time take no prisoners and follow a scorched earth policy in Old Mexico.
I believe we were thinking alike this morning Fred. Like all events in history, there are some minor points of difference in our account, but they are essentially the same.
San Jacinto Day is also set aside by Texas Aggies all over the world to remember those who have fallen during the previous year. On this day in Iraq, Afghanistan, Antarctica, and anywhere else that Aggies live, there will be solemn ceremonies at which the names of the fallen are called out and Taps is played. Many this year have fallen defending our freedom. Let’s remember all of those who have done so, just like we remember those who gave their lives at San Jacinto.
I do not see either side of the aisle much interested in saving this nation, solely on the grounds of overeducated white male guilt. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s all about race, culture and, moreover, demographics. Mexicans are procreating at a much greater rate than anyone else in America, including blacks, whites, asiatics. That will be our future. In Europe, Muslims are procreating at a much greater rate. Their future will be with Islam.
There is no stepping back; there is no regaining our country. We do not have the will. We can only hope that it comes in an orderly fashion and that we somehow manage to instill more of our culture on Mexicans, than they wish to bring from Mexico. Otherwise the USA will be nothing more than Mexico now — the Mexicans WANT to flee Mexico. There will come a time, Fred, long after you and I are gone, when people, mostly Mexicans, will finally look at the United States (or whatever it may be called by then) and decide THEY must flee THESE shores.
They will have done it to themselves.
It is quite sad indeed, to believe this is my country’s future. But I do not see common sense and logic winning the day. There are too many stupid, accepting and blinded people in this nation, too many with their hands out, hoping and longing for a Free Ride on the back of someone else. Until, of course, we RUN OUT of “someone else”s.
BZ
Unfortunately BZ, I fear that you are correct. It will not affect me much..hell, sweetthing and I are 65 years old and I figure it will take another twenty years before I have to punch two for English instead of one and by that time if I am still here I will be too old to give a damn anyway.
But it is the young people who are the future of freedom that I worry about. Our glorious republic is on the decline..and some day someone will write a book called the “Decline and Fall of the American Republic”..and I have no doubt that the reasons for the fall will be the same as the reasons for the fall of the great Roman Republic..greedy citizens who wanted the free bread and greedy politicians who gave it to tem in order to stay in power.
But I also keep in mind that after the fall of the Roman Republic a stronger Rome under a dictator/Emperor emerged and lasted another five hundred plus years as the strongest nation on earth.
I have just about came to the conclusion that the masses are unable to govern themselves for any prolonged period. The greed for the free lunch always seem to prevail over the need for good government.