#Texas Revolution

[lexusveryreal]

history class is smth else fr

[theherbstorian]

Museum bathroom selfie at San Felipe de Austin simply because this uniform makes me feel like a million bucks.

Had a wonderful time representing the Mexican forces who marched into [already burnt-up] San Felipe in April 1836!

[formulaireone]

english: What’s so great about dumb, ol’ Texas?

I bet you Antonio probably comforted himself to sleep saying this to himself when he lost 😭🙏

[karagin22]

[taraross-1787]

This Day in History: Siege of Béxar

On this day in 1835, Texians begin an assault on Mexican forces in San Antonio. Mere days later, Mexican General Martin Perfecto de Cos would raise a flag of truce, indicating his willingness to surrender San Antonio to the Texian Army. The capture concluded the long Siege of Béxar.

Texians were feeling pretty optimistic at this point in the Texas Revolution. Could it really be as easy as that?! They’d just won victories at Gonzales and Goliad, too.

The first victory at Gonzales had spurred many men to join the ragtag Texian Army. The men soon elected Stephen F. Austin as commander and began marching toward San Antonio de Béxar.

General Cos, Santa Anna’s brother-in-law, was there with about 650 defenders. Texians would take the city from him, if they could.

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-siege-bexar

[thebeautifulbook]

WITH CROCKETT AND BOWIE; OR, FIGHTING FOR THE LONE-STAR FLAG; A TALE OF TEXAS by Kirk Munroe, 1850-1930. (New York: Scribners, 1899.) Illustrated by Victor Semon Pérard.

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[ruzqtx]

me when what if alamo defenders (and flynn) had phones

(bowie and travis still fight over texts but bowie can say more he wouldn’t in person because the thinks it won’t have consequences)

(he gets yelled at in person not even a minute later)

[jakestabletop]

1830s Mexican infantry in summer fatigues and shako covers; 28mm metals from Brigade Games' Boot Hill Miniatures line, individually based for Sharp Practice, Rebels and Patriots, etc

[klemannlee]

 And so it began...this day in 1836.

Santa Anna's Army began to arrive in San Antonio de Bexár on February 23, 1836. Their arrival prompted members of the Texan Army to enter the Alamo, which was by now heavily fortified. The Alamo had 18 serviceable cannons and approximately 150 men at the start of the siege.

[lightdancer1]

Last for today is the Texas Revolution:

Ending today with the Texas Revolution, which is why the 1840 (loosely) standpoint was chosen, because with the 1840s to the outbreak of the Scramble there are some key moments on both sides of the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean that will be focused on accordingly. You will often see the claim that Mexico abolished slavery as soon as it declared independence, which is not true. It took until 1830 for Vincente Guerrero to make it so and his reward for freeing his fellow Black people was both an execution and the outbreak of rebellions in the Rio Grande, New Mexico, and Texas provinces.

This revolt in turn would lead to the Republic of Texas, the USA's brief flirtation with the usual Russian pattern of 'create a sham state and pretend you have nothing to do with it until you annex it and drop the lies everyone knows are lies', and to the specific elements of US military history and Black history and the intertwining of both in ways that reliably make the US look like a bunch of ogres until Black people freed themselves in the ranks of the US Army from 1863-5.

That Guerrero freed the slaves was one part of the rebellion, another part was that he was a liberal, and in Mexican history that meant balking at the finely codified Apartheid-like racial hierarchy of colonial New Spain, an egalitarian multi-racial and multi-cultural view that was not exactly welcome to Mexican conservatives or to the rebels.....and that he was only some of the time an opponent of Santa Anna, while it was the much more ideologically coherent Bustamante that had him executed.

As a result of this pattern when the Texas Revolution broke out, it was a Faustian (and ultimately unequal) bargain between the avidly pro-slavery Anglos led by Stephen F. Austin and conservatives in the Province of Coahuila de Tejas, a pact that was won largely because Santa Anna, in one of his many interminable coups, deposed Bustamante, went on to fight and lose the Battle of San Jacinto after winning the Alamo and Goliad, and was coerced into treating the Republic as entity, which the perennial in and out coup-ridden regime in Mexico City in turn refused to accept.

Thus was the stage set for the next 10 years until the outbreak of James K. Polk's war, and thus is where the period of New World history closes for a time.

[theherbstorian]

Being in your early 30s and studying the same historical period you were into as a preteen is trippy because you 100% can have a nuanced (even critical at times) analysis of a historical figure, but also...

...he's my buddy Jim, who got me over my long-time phobia of sharp objects when I was 11.

...he's my bff James, and when I was a 12 year old squad leader in the Young Marines dreading every second of a role I so badly wanted to love and be good at, he made me feel less alone.

...he's my old friend David, who got me through my first heartbreak when I was 13ish and found out the guy I had the biggest crush on got a girlfriend.

...and so on and so forth.

[formulaireone]

why do y’all like my santa anna crap so much

anyway eat up, here’s more lazy doodles of antonio 🙌

[karagin22]

[brightfametexan]

Traces of Texas · The Texas Quote of the Day is SO good and shows that NOBODY --- not even Sam Houston, Edward Burleson or Thomas J. Rusk ---- can resist a good chicken dinner. But first I need to give y'all some historical context. Although Sam Houston stressed the need for discipline among his soldiers during the Texas revolution, Sam sometimes joined with them in "bending" the rules. He and his troops commandeered cattle from farms as they moved through Texas but he gave strict orders for the men not to touch pigs and chickens which, unlike the wild bovines, were the cherished personal property of families. Soldier Stephen Franklin Sparks wanted a break from beef and, discovering an abandoned barnyard full of chickens and hogs and a smokehouse packed with bacon, told several friends that he was going to cook a regular dinner. They warned him that Houston would punish them but he told them that he didn't care and said that he'd take the blame. And now the Texas quote of the day: "I told them that I would take all the blame, and clear them. They soon agreed to this, for none of us had tasted any bread for some time. We had nothing but beef, and that cooked only one way--roasted by the fire.(we had no vessels to cook in)--and without any salt, too. I went to work and killed twelve grown chickens, dressed them, and put them in a large wash pot; I also put in some sliced bacon. I then made an oven and a large skillet of cornbread. I took six of the chickens, and put them in a dinner pot, with at least half a gallon of rich gravy, and set it away, together with the oven of bread. By this time the beeves had been butchered and hung up, and I called the men to come to dinner. The yard was covered with feathers, and the men said to me, 'Ain't you afraid Houston will punish you if you don't take those feathers away?' I said, 'No.' Well, we all did justice to that dinner. It was getting late in the evening. I got up on the rail fence, and pretty soon I saw the army coming. Houston, Rusk, Burleson, Sherman and some of the other officers came up and dismounted. I opened the gate, and said, 'Gentlemen officers, I wish to see you in the house.' I led the way, and they all followed me in. I saw Houston knit his brows when he saw the feathers in the yard. When they were all in, I closed the door, and addressed General Houston in the following way, 'General, I have disobeyed orders; when we arrived here, I found everything deserted and we were hungry, for we have had nothing to eat, except beef; so I killed some chickens and baked some bread, and we had a good dinner.' He looked at me as if he were looking through me, and said, 'Sparks, I will have to punish you. You knew it was against orders; I will have to punish you.' I said, 'General, I saved you some,' and I took the lids off the vessels that contained the chicken and the bread, and told them to help themselves. Rusk drew his knife first, and all the others followed suit, except Houston, who had not taken his eyes off me all this time. Finally he said, 'Sparks, I hate to punish you.' I said, 'General, I will submit to whatever you put upon me.' Rusk said, 'General, if you don't come on we'll eat all the dinner. We have not had such a dinner since we left home. Sparks is a good cook.' Then the General drew his knife, and attacked the dinner. After he had eaten a short time, General Rusk said, 'General Houston, it is a maxim in law that 'he who partakes of stolen property, knowing it to be such, is guilty with the thief.'' General Houston replied, 'No one wants any of your law phrases.' After the meal General Houston said, 'Sparks, I'll not punish you for this offense, but if you are guilty of it the second time I will double the punishment.'" ----- Recollections of S. F. Sparks, extracted from the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, 1909. Sparks fought in the siege of Bexar (San Antonio) in Dec. 1835 and also in the Battle of San Jacinto. He was one of the last survivors of the Texas Revolution, dying in Rockport in 1908 at the age of 89.

[firstoccupier]

The Alamo: A Rallying Cry for Resistance

The Siege of the Alamo, which occurred from February 23 to March 6, 1836, stands as a powerful emblem of courage, sacrifice, and the relentless pursuit of independence. Situated in San Antonio, Texas, the Alamo mission was converted into a stronghold by Texan rebels during this critical time. In early 1836, a courageous group of Texan and Tejano (Mexican-American) defenders, led by notable…

[ruzqtx]

ALAMO-…ALL STARS?

STOP i will NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT URSULA VERAMENDI AND JIM BOWIE 💔💔 they’re what true love is guys i will forever say they were literally the exact definition of love 🙏

they’re so cute oh my goodness 💔💔…,,they both deserved sm better they could’ve been so good

mentioned nathan hale ONCE and now it’s over for you all guys