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As a symbol of defiance, Caroline Zumwalt and Eveline DeWitt, a young woman from Gonzales, made a flag with the phrase "come and take it" (Spanish: Ven y tómalo) either printed above or below the cannon, or only below the cannon that they had been loaned four years earlier by Mexican officials.
According to later newspaper reports he was charged by the Texas government with disobeying orders and treason (in support of the Yucatan polity), and discharged from the Texas Navy on March 21, 1843, which then led to piracy, and the hanging by Moore from the yardarm four sailors, Antonio Landois, James Hudgins, Isaac Allen, and William ...
A Texas Legation was maintained by the Republic of Texas in Washington, D.C.; London; and Paris (1 Place Vendôme) from 1836 through 1845. In a bid to protect itself from almost certain invasion by forces from neighboring Mexico , the Texas government sought to foster international ties and so opened the Texas Legations in London and Paris.
Mayo was a writer and poet who wrote under the name of Edward Garrett. Both women had read of the particularly gruesome mob murder of Henry Smith in Texas and wanted to organize a speaking tour to call attention to American lynchings. Impey and Mayo asked Frederick Douglass to make the trip, but he declined, citing his age and health.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” — Thomas ...
50. "I just want women to always feel in control. Because we're capable, we're so capable." — Nicki Minaj. 51. "You draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are. . . .
I’m president, I want to protect the women of our country.” As cheers broke out from the crowd, the Republican nominee noted he pays his advisers a lot of money.
Almost from the moment of his arrival in Texas, Travis had attempted to influence the war agenda in Texas. [4] As he realized the magnitude of the opposition he faced at the Alamo, the tone of Travis's writings shifted from perfunctory reports to the provisional government to more eloquent messages aimed at a wider audience. [53]