22 Replies to “The Battle of San Jacinto”

  3. Texans fighting for the freedom to have slavery…………………………real glory.

  5. There’s a funny story about San Jacinto (hard J). Maybe someday I’ll tell it.

  6. No work at all when you know the true history of things. Americas history is shrouded in a glorious mist that is a bit opaque. If you want truth you have to look at original documents not history books.

  8. Right the US is the bad guy,as Brazil and S America the Caribbean who had 20 times the slaves from Africa are given a pass.
    “Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.
    And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That’s right: a tiny percentage.”
    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/how-many-slaves-landed-in-the-us/

  9. *
    you’re a moron. less than 5% of americans owned slaves… which, incidentally, were largely captured and sold to arab slavers by their warring neighbours, who sold them on. this was the way the world workedfrom time immemorial. ask ghengis khan.
    no one ever talks about all the impoverished, indentured servants who were transported overseas… or the brutal highland clearances. or the cannabalism of large swaths of canada’s aboriginal peoples.
    let’s hear you champion the rights of modern day slaves in the sudan or yemen.
    *

  10. I didn’t say America was the bad guy, America was plagued with slavery (another gift of Islam to the west) and had difficulty extracting itself from it. And slavery was the reason for the Texans revolt. It aint pretty because the truth sometimes isn’t.

  11. The blurriest … most opaque lens from which history is viewed … is through the typical self-hating, liberal, public school curriculum. Therein, you will learn that “white man baaaaad, brown man gooood”. There, you will “learn” (read: indoctrinated) that America (and maybe England) were the only slave holders ever in the entire world. There you will “learn” that only white people enslaved black people. There you will “learn” that only Christians enslaved brown people. Of course ALL of this is utter nonsense … as is suggesting Texas was significantly different than Mexico in its slave holding. America and Americans (including Texans) were simply more PUBLIC and transparent in their resolution and abolition of slavery. A little Mexican slavery history …
    http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/666-slavery-in-mexico
    Please note that it was The Church … The Catholic Church … that forbid slavery. It was the local Mexican culture that promulgated slavery. And I might direct you to the concluding sentence of this article that accurately summarizes the status of FREE native peoples in Mexico.
    Ironically, it is the Indians, never enslaved, who retreated into largely inaccessible mountain and jungle areas, that today make up the most destitute and deprived population in modern Mexico..
    You can easily say the exact same thing about nearly the entire population of the African continent. As barbaric as slavery was … it provided a way forward for People’s who would otherwise have never have made their own way in the modern world. I understand how HARSH and “insensitive” that sounds … but facts are stubborn things.
    I sometimes wish we could view a parallel history … one where no enslavement ever took place anywhere on the planet. A parallel history where Europeans approached Africa (and other “dark continents”) with the Star Trek “prime directive” … to not interfere in any way with other civizations. I have no doubt in my mind that half the planet would still be living in the Iron (if not stone) Age, while the West would be planning trips to Mars.
    I am certain that my own lineage endured its own period of enslavement during the Dark Ages and European Feudalism. My ancestors lived as slaves to Kings, Dukes, Barrons, and other “titled” landholders. There were plenty of Serfs in my family history. But here we are today … living as FREE people … living in the lap of prosperity. That’s all that matters. The way FORWARD in life, is to NEVER act “the victim” … EVER!

  12. Silly leftist, your self important derision amuses me. We laugh at your irrelevance. Now go away, or we will taunt you again.

  14. At the time of the revolution, depending where you were, 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 of the population in the colonies were black. And how many and who owned slaves doesn’t matter. In Canada the largest slave holders were the Indians made up of captured/purchased blacks, captured whites and defeated enemy Indians. I didn’t realize how much submerged slave guilt there was in America until Obozo was in the house. The leftards were pretty obvious and the right were just more subtle about it. Electing the first black man to the presidency was to have the sins of slavery washed away from history so the Progressives could march off pure as Puritans into the future. Except no one stopped to think that the descendant of black muslim slavers (the very folks who rounded up blacks for slavery) might not be the best choice. It just shows God has a terrific sense of black humor. I suppose if I tell you that the most unnecessary, retarding and tragic event in American history was the Revolution you would seek out a safe space but that also is true. America is a great nation but lacks the maturity to fulfill the destiny it might have had. I suspect the full term pregnancy for independance happily granted by Britain would have been around 1850 and encompassing the entire continent in makeup. Still, America is todays greatest nation by most measures. I’m just a stickler for truth in history and you sons of bitches owe me a 200 acre farm in South Hempstead Long Island Attained by the mob of 1783. 😉

  15. Slavery though not exactly named by that term was still an everyday scenario for many children in Germany, Austria and Switzerland of poor or greedy families or single mothers, or with no family at all only 70, 80, 90, 100 years back.
    They were bought and sold, stolen, caught like game, given away, handed down, kept and treated often worse than animals. And they were all white.
    The mechanisms of slavery are something characteristically human. Without difference. Today’s everyday slavery for us is to the state and a little more subtle and less violent. Within families… well.
    I would never want to assume that it’s a thing of the past. A return to those barbaric times is possible any time. It’s just a question of politics.

  16. Not sure I can get you a Hempstead Estate … but how about 160 acres in Western Nebraska ? The Homestead Act gave that to you for $12.00 … if you survived the Plains Indian Raids … with no place to run, no place to hide.

  18. The Treaty of Ghent in 1815, between the British Empire & the USA abolished the slave trade & those pressed into service.
    It was the Royal Navy that enforced capital punishment to ALL ships found to be engaged in transporting Slavery
    All the rest of the World followed the British Empire, or they hung…

  20. “Texans fighting for the freedom to have slavery………….real glory.”
    It’s a very shallow interpretation of the reasons. So, okay, yes, slavery was a factor. But it was rather a small one and there were several other reasons much more forcing. You could find this out for yourself if you actually decided to really look at the situation in 1836 both in Texas and in Mexico.
    A few examples:
    * Texas was so remote from the Capitols both of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Texas (i.e., it was part of a Mexican state) and the national capitol that it was already isolated from the government of Mexico.
    * Most Texans spoke English, not Spanish. The native Tejanos, or native-born Texas Mexicans, were few in number and by 1834 the Americans outnumbered them by as many as four-to-one.
    * Mexico may have outlawed slavery at that time but they certainly practiced a form of it in the exploitation of their population …. peon workers bound in servitude.
    Please, no more snarky ignorant comments.
    Oh, and by the way, in 1866 the Americans restored the democratic government in Mexico through their threatening behavior and stealth assistance which drove out the sock puppet Mexican Emperor (Maximilian) of Napoleon III.

  21. Indeed !
    BTW … have you ever seen the film Belle ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_(2013_film)
    I loved the film which told the story of a Caribbean orphan girl raised in English Society with a subplot about the Zong massacre which caused a landmark shift in English Laws regarding slavery … and the “commercial value” of another human being.
    And it just so happens that the leading actress looks -exactly- like my youngest son’s girlfriend (hope they marry someday). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugu_Mbatha-Raw 🙂

  22. The list of those who died defending the Alamo is easily found using Google and is quite interesting to scan through.
    Englishmen were on hand which is a bit surprising.

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