http://www.metafilter.com/tags/SantaAnna Posts tagged with 'SantaAnna' at MetaFilter. Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:22:44 -0800 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:22:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/49671/Happy%2DIndependence%2DDay <a href="http://www.texianlegacy.com/march2.html">Today is Texas Independence Day</a> On March 2, 1836, the <a href="http://www.lsjunction.com/docs/tdoi.htm">Texas Declaration of Independence </a>was signed at <a href="http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/washington_on_the_brazos/">Washington-on-the-Brazos</a>. The <a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/widgets/pager.php?object_id=meta-pth-5872&recno=1071&path=/data/UNT/GLT/meta-pth-5872.tkl">document</a> was created by the <a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/widgets/pager.php?object_id=meta-pth-5872&recno=831&path=/data/UNT/GLT/meta-pth-5872.tkl">Convention of 1836 </a>while almost a couple hundred brave Texans at <a href="http://www.thealamo.org/">the Alamo </a><a href="http://www.alamocity.com/alamo/">held Gen. Santa Anna's army of several thousand at bay for 13 days</a>. On March 6, the <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/Alamo.html">Alamo finally fell</a>, <a href="http://www.lsjunction.com/docs/appeal.htm">slaughtered to the last man</a>. On March 27, 352 Texas soliders were slaughtered at the <a href="http://www.presidiolabahia.org/massacre.htm">Goliad Massacre</a>. Finally on April 21, the untrained armies of Texas, outnumbered and under the command of <a href="http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/shouston.htm">Sam Houston</a>, decisively defeated the much larger and better trained and equipped Army of Mexico at the <a href="http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/batsanjacinto.htm">Battle of San Jacinto </a>and captured the Mexican dictator <a href="http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/santaanna.htm">Santa Anna</a>. <a href="http://www.celebratetexas.org/index.html">Happy Texas Independence Day</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.49671 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:22:44 -0800 1836 3-2 Alamo ConventionOf1836 DavyCrockett DeclarationOfIndependence Goliad GreatStateofTexas history Houston March2 March6 Massacre Mexico military music pride RepublicOfTexas revolution SamHouston SanJacinto SantaAnna slaughter state StephenFAustin Texans Texas TexasIndependenceDay TheLoneStarState Travis war WashingtonOnTheBrazos WilliamBarretTravis dios