There’s no basement in the Alamo…
Posted by TFG on April 22nd, 2005
Gah. Forgot to blog this yesterday, for my not-Texan readers:
Texas forces win at San Jacinto
On this day in 1836, Texas forces won the battle of San Jacinto, the concluding military event of the Texas Revolution. Facing General Santa Anna’s Mexican army of some 1,200 men encamped in what is now southeastern Harris County, General Sam Houston disposed his forces in battle order about 3:30 p.m., during siesta time. The Texans’ movements were screened by trees and the rising ground, and evidently Santa Anna had no lookouts posted. The Texan line sprang forward on the run with the cries “Remember the Alamo!” and “Remember Goliad!” The battle lasted but eighteen minutes. According to Houston’s official report, the casualties were 630 Mexicans killed and 730 taken prisoner. Against this, only nine of the 910 Texans were killed or mortally wounded and thirty were wounded less seriously.
You know, just to remind all yall that we were once a full-throttle country all our own, and we kicked Mexico’s ass. In 18 dang minutes. “Come and Take It”, indeed. That should be a state holiday, by my lights, with free Lone Star and Shiner and big beeves on spits.
April 22nd, 2005 at 12:14 pm
Shoot, I’m still wqiting for y’all to split into five states so we can dispense with the Democrat filibuster of judicial nominees.
April 22nd, 2005 at 4:52 pm
It should be a dang State holiday. YEE HAWWWW
April 22nd, 2005 at 11:42 pm
18 minutes? Amazing…
That’s as quick as what Rosemary Woods erased!
Hell, it took me a whole 19 minutes of watching “Friends” years ago to figure out that it was a total piece of crap. (I’m not too bright… it should have been 19 nanoseconds).
April 23rd, 2005 at 12:23 am
Rosemary Woods??? Good gravy, there’s a call-back. Are you trying to make me feel old?
Sorry about all that time you wasted on a sitcom, chief. Stick to sports on the teevee. Young Chris Young slayed the hated Yankees tonight — worth every minute.
April 23rd, 2005 at 8:10 am
Chris Young is an odd pitcher. Big tall man with a growing big butt. Strikes out four in a row then hrows real goofy pitches no one knows where they will go. Doesn’t have the look of a pitche who will do well over the season. But he’s a Texan so YEE HAAWWW remeber the Alamo!
April 23rd, 2005 at 9:23 am
I noticed that his butt was big, too. Maybe he just had on a pair of old Incaviglia pants.
I thought the exact opposite of how well he’ll do long-haul. I didn’t watch every pitch, but he seemed to have it all together for the Yanks in Yankee Stadium. That’s where you’d expect a nut to crumble — like Kevin Brown did HAHAHAHA