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[lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

Very nice pictures, great light, I love how you have captured the  
ambient, is a very realistic atmosphere

Saludos
Lluis


El 18/04/2011, a las 18:38, R. Clayton McKee escribi?:

> About 175 years ago a ragtag bunch of tired, annoyed, and not  
> especially well-armed Texans seceded.  From Mexico. (Seceding from  
> the US came later and didn't work out as well for them....) They  
> made up their own Constitution, their own president (David Burnett),  
> and their own army, commanded by General Sam Houston.
>
> The Mexican dictator of the time, General Antonio Lopez de Santa  
> Anna etc etc, objected to this, of course. As a result, a lot of  
> people got shot, sliced, and otherwise killed in unpleasant ways.
>
> After several battles, all ending badly for the Texians, and a whole  
> lot of running away across the state, the argument finally  came to  
> a head on April 20, 1836, when the Texians, somewhere between 700  
> and 900 of them, turned around near Lynch's Ferry.
>
> After a few inconclusive skirmishes, about midafternoon of April 21,  
> the Texians went for an after-lunch stroll and caught SantaAnna's  
> Mexican regulars napping. Literally. It was siesta time; the Mexican  
> commanders didn't even have guards or pickets posted.  (There are  
> rumors that while Santa Anna was entertaining in his tent, he may  
> well NOT have been napping, but that's for history to argue.)
>
> The 18 minutes that followed made the existing maps obsolete.  And  
> if Santa Anna was indeed not napping, that was the high point of his  
> day.
>
> Hundreds of Mexicans were killed, hundreds more captured.  A few  
> escaped, but most of those were caught within hours or days.  Santa  
> Anna himself fled the battlefield but the Texians had burned the  
> bridge over the bayou leaving him nowhere to run, and the next day  
> the Napoleon of the West was captured dressed as a private hiding in  
> the weeds.
>
> Fewer than 20 Texians died.  (I've seen casualty counts of 17 and  
> 19, but don't know which is correct.)
>
> The two things to remember, though these days they get harder to  
> believe:
>
> 1.  The good guys won.
> 2.  The Texians, with their guns, were the good guys.
>
> About 20 years ago various Texas history buffs got together and  
> decided that that first 18 minutes was so much fun they wanted to do  
> it again.  So every year since, around about the 21st, they do.
>
> I try to make it when I can.  With cameras,of course.
>
> http://rcmckee.smugmug.com/Other/2011-San-Jacinto-Reenactment/16660270_ZwX5p7
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/426cdjq
>
> Enjoy. Send Friends. Buy Prints. Compliment the Photographer.  Have  
> fun.
>
> R. Clayton McKee
> PhotoJournalist
> from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
>
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