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Post by Tom Nuckols on Mar 22, 2011 22:54:25 GMT -5
Santa Anna was like a lot of the Spanish generals in the Peninsular War who would lead their men in quite incredible forced marches over all sorts of inhospitable terrain to turn up like the Devil at prayers and then fumble what could have been a victory, often because their men were exhausted. In this case, by the hard marching he's so often criticised for, he had Houston exactly where he wanted him. ? Exhaustion from forced marches = troops are overextended? Exactly. Maybe SA had Houston where he wanted him...had SA had fresh troops. But SA didn't have fresh troops. Was exhaustion the difference? Houston attacked in the late afternoon while the Texians were fresh and mad. The Mexicans were lying in their tents trying to recover from a forced march into an alien land they really didn't really care to strenuously defend. Was the outcome predictable?
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Post by stuart on Mar 23, 2011 2:06:36 GMT -5
Depends who's doing the predicting.
If it was old Professor Hindsight you could argue that it might have been, but I very much doubt it looked that way at the time.
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Post by alamonorth on May 4, 2011 11:06:41 GMT -5
Not sure where to post this so I'll just mention it here. There was another battle between Americans and Hispanics at a place called San Jacinto. During William Walker's campaign in Nicaragua in the late 1850's, his filibuster army was defeated at a place called Hacienda San Jacinto. He lost many men in the battle itself and many more were executed later.
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Post by Hiram on May 4, 2011 11:32:38 GMT -5
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