Today is the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo. For a complete description of the events leading up to this battle I recommend T.H. Ferenbach's Lone Star. He tells the story MUCH better than I ever could.
To me, the most important aspect of this battle [aside from the deaths of all defenders] is the fact that the defenders bought precious time for Sam Houston to gather and train his army. And THAT lead to victory a few weeks later [April 21 to be specific] at San Jacinto.
Please take a second to remember the brave men who made the ultimate sacrifice for Liberty and for Texas.
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- HollyB
- North Central, Texas, United States
- I am 1/3 of a set of Triplets born across 11.5 years to different mothers. I'm opinionated, moody, mercurial, witty and wicked mean. I am also Cyberlexic, so I can't figure out how to write my profile for the Other blog seperate from this one. So here's the profile for "No BS from a BSW" I am an ex Social Worker with years of experience. I burned out working for other people and State Agencies but I still have the desire to help that led me to the profession in the first place. So...I started this blog.
2 comments:
Well, if I read the Chronicle right today, Santa Ana's army is marching slowly north and they're selling drugs and shooting everybody.
Excellent point Holly!
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