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Vuurpijl

sas dan?

je valt er ook niet van af....

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Op donderdag 17 januari 2008 16:09 schreef Mobster273 het volgende:
sas dan?

Dat dus, schijt aan Sonja

Mob +2

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echt, de hoeveelheid schijt die ik aan sonja heb...., daar heeft ze een heel nieuw boek voor nodig om het weer kwijt te raken


Welk gebouw en waar staat het?

komt me heeeel bekend voor....

Staat het in Mexico?

nee

al hadden ze gewild van wel

Geef nog eens een hint, want het komt me wel redelijk bekend voor.

HINT: in 1836 was er een bekende slag bij dit gebouw....

Staat het in Texas of California?

ja, maar ik wel een plaatsnaam weten, alleen een staat is niet genoeg

Amerikaanse burgeroorlog?

ow nee die was rond 1863, ik las het verkeerd...

Sacramento?

dan gaan we maar gokken Houston?

Dallas

Lange hint, de aanloop naar voornoemde slag:

Texas was part of the Spanish colony of New Spain. With the conclusion of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain in 1821, Texas became part of Mexico and in 1824 became the northern section of Coahuila y Tejas. The new independent government invited people to come live in Texas, hoping to gain more people. This act was called the Empresario System. On January 3, 1823, Stephen F. Austin began a colony of 300 American families along the Brazos River in present-day Fort Bend County and Brazoria County, primarily in the area of what is now Sugar Land. The political center for the colony was San Felipe, a settlement on the Brazos River where Empresario Stephen F. Austin lived and William Barret Travis began his law practice.

In 1835, President and General Antonio López de Santa Anna abrogated the Constitution of 1824 and proclaimed a new constitution that reduced the power of many of the provincial governments and increased the power of the presidency. Since the end of hostilities with Spain ten years before, the Mexican government, and Santa Anna in particular, had been eager to reassert its control over the entire country, and control of Texas was seen as particularly important as Santa Anna rightly perceived the province to be vulnerable to the westward expansion of the United States.

Hostilities in Texas began with the Battle of Gonzales on October 2 1835, after which the Texian rebels quickly captured Mexican positions at La Bahía and (plaats).

With the surrender of General Martín Perfecto de Cos and his garrison at (plaats), there was no longer a Mexican military presence in Texas. Santa Anna decided to launch an offensive with the aim of putting down the rebellion. Minister of War José María Tornel and Major General Vicente Filisola proposed a seaborne attack to Santa Anna, which would have been easier on the troops and had been a proven means of expeditions into Texas since 1814. Santa Anna refused on the basis that this plan would take too long and the rebels in Texas might receive aid from the United States.

Santa Anna assembled an estimated force of 6,100 soldiers and 20 cannons at San Luis Potosí in early 1836 and moved through Saltillo, Coahuila, towards Texas. His army marched across the Rio Grande through inclement weather, including snowstorms, to suppress the rebellion. (plaats) was one of his intermediate objectives; his ultimate objective was to capture the Texas government and restore the rule of the central or "Centralista" Mexican government over a rebellious state. He had earlier suppressed widespread rebellions across Mexico including Tampico, Yucatán, and Zacatecas. Santa Anna and his army arrived in (plaats) on February 23. It was a mixed force of regular infantry and cavalry units as well as activo reserve infantry battalions and prisoners from the Yucatán impressed into the army. They were equipped with the British Baker and the outdated, short range but effective and deadly British Tower Musket, Mark III, or "Brown Bess" musket. Many of his soldiers were recent conscripts with no previous combat experience. Although they were well-drilled, the Mexican army discouraged individual marksmanship. The initial forces were equipped with four 7 inch (178 mm) howitzers, seven 4-pound (1.8 kg), four 6-pound (2.7 kg), four 8-pound (3.6 kg) and two 12-pound (5 kg) cannon.

Several of Santa Anna's officers were foreign mercenary veterans, including Vicente Filisola of Italy, Adrián Wolle of France, and Antonio Gaona of Cuba, and General Santa Anna was himself a veteran of the War of Independence.

en verder nog niks zinnigs aan antwoorden gezien

dan gok ik weer San Antonio

(Remember the) alamo ?

hoezo weer? het is wel goed iig, nou het gebouw nog, dat was eigenlijk het makkelije deel

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Op donderdag 17 januari 2008 16:45 schreef steekbal het volgende:
(Remember the) alamo ?

daar is ie al

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