It All Started With Columbus by Richard Armour

Author:Richard Armour [Armour, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Humour, Non-Fiction, Satire
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Publisher: Hammond, Hammond & Company
Published: 1963-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

were too small a target for most of the sharpshooters of the day. His favorite costume was a coonskin cap and a buckskin jacket. It is assumed that he wore trousers of some sort, although they are never mentioned. After many exploits in Tennessee, he went on to Texas, which welcomed men of his caliber (.45). He wound up in the Alamo.

THE ALAMO.

Texas was then a part of Mexico because of Spain. Mexico had thrown off the Spanish yoke a few years earlier, but Texas was still wearing the Mexican yoke. Because this was before Theodore Roosevelt (see below), America was not yet an Imperialist Nation.

Americans living in Texas disagreed with the Mexicans who lived there; and Mexicans, and especially Mexican food,1 disagreed with the Americans.

Finally the Americans declared that Texas was no longer a part of Mexico, and a small body of Americans moved into a landmark called the Alamo and waited to be outnumbered.2 They were soon accommodated by a huge army of Mexican generals, who killed the defenders of the Alamo to the last man, whom they also killed.

The triumph of the Mexicans was short-lived, as also were many of the Mexican generals. If they expected the Americans to forget all about the Alamo, they were wrong. By saying “Remember the Alamo” over and over, especially just before going to sleep, the Americans were able to remember the name of the place for weeks and weeks. Later they remembered the Maine and after that Pearl Harbor.

1 Notably Mexican jumping beans, which refused to stay down.

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