Fannin attended West Point for one year and I think he got kicked out. At any rate he didn't learn much. LIke most of the other leaders and much like Travis he was real ambitious and a glory hound so leaving his command or submitting to Houston's authority would win him the kind of plaudits guys like Wharton get: a small town named after him. He sought greater glory and stayed with his command, which was at the front of an undisciplined mob. He could not have entered the Alamo anyway because of the Mexican cavalry.

fyi, huisache, I bought a book randomly at a used book store last year and it had your name stamped in it. I noticed it was the same stamp as the books you gave me.

Small world.

it was in austin or san antonio, right? not a small world, just a big library; I've sold off a couple thousand volumes in the last few years.

You need to read Harris and Sadler's Texas Rangers in the Mexican Revolution and we need to get together this fall. I got my football tickets back and will be in austin some. You can explain why I like Cruz; I have no idea.

you still studying with de la Teja?

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even better than Lonesome Dove.

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High praise indeed!

I'm gonna pick it up.

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Sorry but it is not revisionist history IMO to view Washington in a bad light as far as his military prowess. Granted, he did not have the overall firepower of his opponent but he almost on more than one occasion lost the whole thing. The best that could be said for him is he knew how to retreat in an orderly fashion. Getting out of New York was brilliant but the campaign prior to that was just asking to get smoked. And yes the New Jersey campaign was effective.

I used the comparison of Washington v. Houston in that both were "fathers" of countries but their contribution was more inspiration than military know how. Just my two cents and they are not even worth that.

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It's my understanding that Washington didn't even want to defend New York, correct?

Yes. Before the final surge in the South both the Brtissh and Americans thought New York was the key. Washington actually had to be drug down to Virginia when the French threatened to pull out if he did not. Of course once Washington did head South he did so with a vengeance.