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The gist of the message, however, is that the men at the Alamo were "determined to do or die", and Martin intended to gather reinforcements and return as quickly as possible. [28] In Gonzales, Martin turned the letter over to Launcelot Smither. [30] When the Mexican army arrived in Béxar, Smither had immediately set out for Gonzales.
The first shots of the invasion had been fired at around 4:48 am of 1 September, by the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein.At 5:40 am, Hitler issued a declaration to the armed forces: "The Polish state has refused the peaceful settlement of relations which I desired, and appealed to arms...
The 1937 Ben-Gurion letter is a letter written by David Ben-Gurion, then head of the executive committee of the Jewish Agency, to his son Amos on 5 October 1937.The letter is well known to scholars [1] as it provides insight into Ben-Gurion's reaction to the report of the Peel Commission released on 7 July of the same year.
Read the full text of the speech as he delivered it that day: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Travis considered disobeying his orders, writing to Smith: "I am willing, nay anxious, to go to the defense of Bexar, but sir, I am unwilling to risk my reputation ... by going off into the enemy's country with such little means, so few men, and with them so badly equipped." [27] James Bowie arrived at the Alamo with 30 men on January 19, 1836 ...
Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent. [1] As Steven Weinberg puts it: "I would say that free will is nothing but our conscious experience of deciding what to do, which I know I am experiencing as I write this review, and this experience is not invalidated by the ...
Holdout (gambling), a device used to cheat in gambling Holdout problem, in finance concerning bond redemption; Holdout weapon, a weapon, typically a pistol, which can be sneaked into areas where weapons are normally confiscated or prohibited
I am sparkling; you are unusually talkative; he is drunk. [5] I know my own mind; you like things to be just so; they have to have everything their way. [5] I am a freedom fighter, you are a rebel, and he is a terrorist. I am eccentric, you are weird, he is mad. I am righteously indignant, you are annoyed, he is making a fuss over nothing. [2]