Post by lorinfriesen on May 16, 2008 14:13:47 GMT -5
My road into Texas history has lead me down a path I had never expected to travel, one still meant to be forgotten or so it seems. I am merely an onlooker who uncovered a document, and while an outsider I remain astonished that after 173 years without the hint of review by any noteworthy historian, the highly significant groundwork of success created by the one thousand Texian volunteers, no less than twenty percent of their total population and who's significance remains forgotten, the first who stood to reject tyranny, they made our Texas possible.
I present my case for the earliest of Texans who fought at the Alamo and secured it for Texas' own. Here is Austin's letter a handwritten circular by, the Fatherly Texan stating War is our only resource, and so the majority of Texans did agree to rise with him into war against the centralist's destruction of their constitutional rights. These Americans who reasonably understood their freedom was something never to be surrendered, did believe in their rights of republicanism, long before independence was declared and soon after, secured at San Jacinto by most of the same.
I state my rationale; could Texas have become a nation without first having secured the Alamo? Would Texas have survived the onslaught as it did without the Alamo defenses holding the attention of Santa Anna's main force for two weeks?
Those many men who fought and won the Alamo at the Siege of Bexar did receive lands promised them by their government for their services, but they have yet been honored in any other way. Their names have been lost, deliberately forgotten in the plight of politics.
On September 19th, 2008 I as an artist will present my well-researched depiction of Stephen F. Austin on the morning he declared for the rise to begin in 1835, the day after he had heard enough!
DOCUMENTS:
First side of Circular September 19, 1835, detailing the critical nature of events. "Credit Texas State Archives".
Page two of Circular details his call to arms. "Credit Texas State Archives".
Broadside, September 26, 1835. Credit "Center for American History, Austin"
The day the Texas Revolution began has yet been honored.
I present my case for the earliest of Texans who fought at the Alamo and secured it for Texas' own. Here is Austin's letter a handwritten circular by, the Fatherly Texan stating War is our only resource, and so the majority of Texans did agree to rise with him into war against the centralist's destruction of their constitutional rights. These Americans who reasonably understood their freedom was something never to be surrendered, did believe in their rights of republicanism, long before independence was declared and soon after, secured at San Jacinto by most of the same.
I state my rationale; could Texas have become a nation without first having secured the Alamo? Would Texas have survived the onslaught as it did without the Alamo defenses holding the attention of Santa Anna's main force for two weeks?
Those many men who fought and won the Alamo at the Siege of Bexar did receive lands promised them by their government for their services, but they have yet been honored in any other way. Their names have been lost, deliberately forgotten in the plight of politics.
On September 19th, 2008 I as an artist will present my well-researched depiction of Stephen F. Austin on the morning he declared for the rise to begin in 1835, the day after he had heard enough!
DOCUMENTS:
First side of Circular September 19, 1835, detailing the critical nature of events. "Credit Texas State Archives".
Page two of Circular details his call to arms. "Credit Texas State Archives".
Broadside, September 26, 1835. Credit "Center for American History, Austin"
The day the Texas Revolution began has yet been honored.
