Battle of San Jacinto

It’s a San Antonio Thing. You may be asking yourself what is fiesta? Well read on to find out It all started in 1891 when the people decorated everything all around the city. There are different fiestas around town everyday as it is a ten day event. The three parades I would recommend are The Battle of the Flowers, NIOSA (a night in old San Antonio), and San Antonio cactus and xerophyte show and sell. The Battle of the Flowers started in 1891 when the people of San Antonio…

By 1890, San Antonio, Texas, was a thriving trade center with a population of 38,000. In 1891 a group of citizens decided to honor the heroes of the Alamo and Battle of San Jacinto with a Battle of Flowers.The first parade had horse-drawn carriages, bicycles decorated with fresh flowers and floats carrying children dressed as flowers. The Belknap Rifles represented the military. The participants pelted each other with blossoms.The Battle of Flowers Parade is the only one in the country to be…

for Houston to lead his men into battle sooner than would have been fortuitous. However, Houston waited until Santa Anna’s troops were at a disadvantage before striking. On April 21, 1836, Houston’s retreat turned into the Battle of San Jacinto. Houston and his men were victorious, even capturing Santa Anna himself. This battle is the event that “forever enshrined [Houston} as a member of the pantheon of Texas heroes and a symbol for the…

But afterwards, General Houston marches his troops south, to what is outside of Harrisburg to prepare for the engagement with Santa Anna. They go there also Santa Anna’s final battle in San Jacinto. But instead, Colonel Sherman refuses to follow the orders from General Houston and sends his troops to go fight. This smooth move almost cost them the war. Meanwhile over at the Wycoff family, purchase a farmland at the Mexican border. Which…

Three centuries of Spanish Rule, Creole, Indian populations, and the Mestizo outnumbered native Spaniards in Mexico. However, the Spaniards remained on the top of social hierarchy. Documents were purchased to establish European ancestry, as being European came with a lot of benefits. The primary force was the Catholic Church, which was a dominant social threat. Spanish churches dominated villages of Mexico, they symbolized wealth and power. The natives believed in the Virgin De Guadalupe,…

military, when he helped fight for the independence of Texas. Sam led troops at the Battle of San Jacinto into victory, but unfortunately he suffered a shot to the leg during the battle. The rifle ball caused his ankle to shatter. Samuel had a pretty good reputation and was well known to many people. Because of this, he has many accomplishments. For example, on March 1, Sam was elected for the convention of San Felipe. Sam was also the leader in Texas for more than 25 years. He was also…

In Sam Houston and the American Southwest, Randolph B. Campbell argues that Sam Houston was a great leader but with a subpar personal life for most of it. The four major moments one should pay attention to when discussing Houston’s time of leadership, are his time governing Tennessee, leading an army during the war for Texas independence, his time running Texas and lastly, his time as a member of the Senate for the state of Texas. Houston made decisions based on what he feels is the best for…

them to acquire Texas, Oregon, and California. I don’t think the U.S. achieved the Manifest Destiny morally and ethically because their purpose to acquire westward land killed many people, for example the Mexican-American War, battle of San Jacinto, and several other battles. To conclude with, the belief of manifest destiny was achieved successfully because of acquiring of land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. It was not a very easy task for the Americans to acquired land because of…

The Texas Revolutionary War is a war that is depicted by the American people to be a war that was fought and was justified to better the lives of the Texian and American people, making the Texian’s the “good guys” in the American point of view in this war. My beliefs is that the Mexican Government was only trying to defend their struggling government and land from being taken over by Anglo settlers from the United States that believed in slavery and also was against a Centralized Mexican…

historic battle of the Alamo was fought between the Mexicans under the command of Sant Anna and the Americans under Commanders Williams Travis, Bowie and David Crockett. It could also be described as the war between the Texians (non-Hispanic settlers in the then Spanish Mexico) and the Tejanos (native-born Mexican-Americans). The Alamo was fought on the dawn of March 6th, 1836 was because of many factors that had arisen in the then Spanish Texas. Some of these factors were conflicts over land,…