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re: If Tennessee had not saved Texas from the Mexicans,
Posted on 6/12/24 at 9:11 am to madmaxvol
Posted on 6/12/24 at 9:11 am to madmaxvol
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Holy crap. It's hard to believe there were 3,000,000 in the US Army that went to defend Texas during the Mexican-American War (because Tennessee sent 30,000 and that's how math works).
I was talking about from somewhere other than Texas
Nice try though
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Posted on 6/12/24 at 10:57 am to BigBro
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I would be a Texican?
No. You'd be what you already are: TexMex, as in Taco Meat.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 11:01 am to Comancheria
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Holy crap. It's hard to believe there were 3,000,000 in the US Army that went to defend Texas during the Mexican-American War (because Tennessee sent 30,000 and that's how math works).
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I was talking about from somewhere other than Texas
He is talking about the Mexican-American war. You were talking about the Texas revolution.
The Texian Army only had 6-8 thousand in the Texas Revolution.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 11:12 am to RelentlessTide
embarrassing smack attempt.
I think our history with Tennessee is pretty cool. Tell us more.
I think our history with Tennessee is pretty cool. Tell us more.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 11:42 am to Dieselmike
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Memphis belongs to Arkansas Clark. Y’all can have Elvis too.
Except that Elvis is from Tupelo, MS.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 11:45 am to StroKat
Well Florida has been doing a good job lately too.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 11:50 am to Buster83
Biden got nearly 47 percent of the vote in Texas. Texas therefore is a liberal suck hole.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 12:52 pm to RelentlessTide
Lol…even then, Tennessee was such an awful place the good guys left for Texas. Rest stayed home, in bred among themselves, founded the University of Tennessee.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 12:53 pm to RelentlessTide
Texas did belong to Mexico, it was stolen like the rest of this country from both the native Americans who are one and the same with the Mexican natives. 
Posted on 6/12/24 at 1:00 pm to Comancheria
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This shite is so dumb at this point. 99% of the army was from somewhere else, while we're all thankful for the Tennessee volunteers, no they didn't win the war for Texas.
Please continue to give us Texas history lessons, I learn so much here.
Hell about 99% of the current population of Texas ain't from Texas originally. I know it ain't 99% but its a lot....its kind of like some one held the United States up by Maine and Washington and shook it really hard and all the normal people held on and all the morons fell into Texas.
And not to give Texans a Texas history lesson but there were more newly arrived immigrants from Europe, mostly Ireland, Scotland and England but also Germany than any group inside the Alamo other than people from Texas. There were more people from Louisiana than there were from Tennessee. The Tennesseans get notice because most of them followed another Tennessean while the Europeans and coon asses wondered down to San Antonio on their own....
Posted on 6/12/24 at 2:06 pm to Dieselmike
They lost
San Jacinto was days later.
San Jacinto was days later.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 3:33 pm to RelentlessTide
I believe that Tennessee helped steal land from Mexico. Ultimately 55% of Mexico was stolen.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 7:09 pm to Dieselmike
Crockett left Tenn because he opposed Jackson’s Indian Removal Act. Davy Crockett fought against it politically.
It was seen by Jackson as betrayal since both men were from Tennessee and Crockett was the only member of the Tennessee Congressional delegation to vote against this bill. This vote by Crockett is the main reason why he was voted out of office in 1830.
Jackson was a piece of crap and one of the most corrupt Presidents in history.
Crockett told Jackson and the state of Tenn to F- off.
It was seen by Jackson as betrayal since both men were from Tennessee and Crockett was the only member of the Tennessee Congressional delegation to vote against this bill. This vote by Crockett is the main reason why he was voted out of office in 1830.
Jackson was a piece of crap and one of the most corrupt Presidents in history.
Crockett told Jackson and the state of Tenn to F- off.
This post was edited on 6/12/24 at 7:16 pm
Posted on 6/12/24 at 7:15 pm to jamespatterson
Harry Truman got played by the French and the result was the Vietnam war. Basically the policy of the US was to support self determination in former colonies. The French wanted their colonies back though, and threatened not to cooperate in an alliance against the USSR unless they got them.
Truman could have played hardball because France was a bombed-out ruin without any industry that needed the US way more than the US needed them. Instead he decided that Vietnam wasn't worth the trouble and the US spent the next decades financing France's losing war in Vietnam while driving the rebels into the arms of the communists.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 7:18 pm to SneezyBeltranIsHere
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A lot of people from a lot of places came together to make Texas great.
Kentucky & Tennessee supplied the best men with a gun.
(Just sayin)
Posted on 6/12/24 at 7:20 pm to PerrillouxToTexas
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So when we kill the SEC, it's really Tennessee's fault.
Now you are figuring out the SEC.
I do think Utx will give the VoLOLs some serious competition for the "Life Champions" trophy every year going forward tho.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 8:34 pm to Dieselmike
quote:They more or less gave it back to Mexico
Tennesseans gave their lives to give Texans a state and all they did with that gift is to turn it into a liberal suck hole.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 6:04 am to Sleepy_Tiger
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Tennesseans gave their lives to give Texans a state and all they did with that gift is to turn it into a liberal suck hole.
They more or less gave it back to Mexico
Mexicans were there first and will be there until the end. Same as it is from Texas to California.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 8:18 am to RelentlessTide
South Carolina's Heroes of the Alamo – William Barret Travis & James Butler Bonham
SCIWAY
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At one time a popular bumper sticker in the Saluda area read, "Texas Starts Here." Saluda County was, after all, birthplace and childhood home of two of the Alamo's greatest heroes, William Barret Travis and James Butler Bonham.
Travis was co-commander (along with famed frontiersman James Bowie) of the makeshift fortress when the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna arrived in San Antonio. A lawyer by trade, Travis was a fiery, handsome redhead with a restless spirit. Before coming to Texas in 1831, he had already tried Alabama, where both he and his cousin, James Bonham, practiced law.
Travis was a complicated sort. When he moved to Texas, he had professed to convert to Catholicism (a requirement of Mexican citizenship) and declared himself single, though he had left behind a son and pregnant wife in Alabama. Legend has it that Travis, convinced of his wife's infidelity, killed the man he suspected to be the father of her unborn child. His wife claimed desertion and was granted a divorce in early 1835. Meanwhile, Travis kept written documentation of his extramarital conquests1 and made plans to marry someone else.2
And yet William Travis was considered a fair man, and well disciplined. Along with Bowie, he argued that the Alamo was the only thing keeping Santa Anna from invading the vulnerable settlements of East Texas. On February 24, 1836, Travis addressed the following letter, To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World:
Fellow citizens & compatriots –
I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna – I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken – I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls – I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, & every thing dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch – The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country – Victory or Death
William Barret Travis
Lt. Col. Comdt.
SCIWAY
Posted on 6/14/24 at 11:21 am to Spoonbilla
Pretty awesome that Travis defeated the Mexicans even though he was greatly outnumbered.
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