The Morning Briefing: Happy Texas Independence Day! Will Woke History Cancel the Alamo?
The Morning Briefing: Happy Texas Independence Day! Will Woke History Cancel the Alamo? While Kruiser is away, Stephen Green and I will play, and the playground is the Morning Briefing. Green ably led the line yesterday. I'll do my best today. Today is March 2. Outside Texas this is just another day but in Texas it's Texas Independence Day. On March 2, 1836, while the 189-odd Texians, Tejanos, and European rebels (and a bunch from Tennessee, however you choose to classify them) were under Santa Anna's brutal siege at the Alamo. Sam Houston, Lorenzo de Zavala, and other Texas leaders were holed up at Washington-on-the-Brazos. They were hashing out what to do, as one of the largest armies in the Americas, under the command of the self-styled "Napoleon of the West," would soon bear down on them. The name of the town they met in ought to strongly hint to us today what the Texas revolution was all about. It would, but the cancelers ... | | | |
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