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Alamo is OK, but the real thrill is San Jacinto, nearby, where the Texians beat Santa Anna in the rematch after the Alamo disaster. They setup their lines so that Santa Annas cannons couldn't reach them (cannon balls often hitting the ground and rolling to the Texian lines).
I visited about 30-40 years ago and had the adventure of touring the old USS Texas battlewagon from WW2, pulled up in the estuary, a real thrill! There seemed to be no security guards or tour guides that day, so I made my own tour, which gave me a chance to see the breeches of the big guns in the turrets, and go below and see the shot and powder magazines. That place must have been a living hell during bombardment! A tight, confined place with extraordinary noise and heat, and the ever present danger of explosion from the big bags of powder that came up on the ammo elevator!
Then I found a display behind glass of old documents from the 1840s from the original USS Texas during the days of filibusters against Mexico. It wasn't locked so I could read thru a sailors diary from the 1840s about his sailing out of Galveston en route to a filibuster, and an account of the Captain exacting justice from some failed sailors, hanging two from the yardarms and keelhauling a couple others, by casting them off one side of the Boat with a rope around the waist, then hauling them underneath and up on the other side so they got horribly scraped against the barnacle covered bottom.
It was a different time!
I visited about 30-40 years ago and had the adventure of touring the old USS Texas battlewagon from WW2, pulled up in the estuary, a real thrill! There seemed to be no security guards or tour guides that day, so I made my own tour, which gave me a chance to see the breeches of the big guns in the turrets, and go below and see the shot and powder magazines. That place must have been a living hell during bombardment! A tight, confined place with extraordinary noise and heat, and the ever present danger of explosion from the big bags of powder that came up on the ammo elevator!
Then I found a display behind glass of old documents from the 1840s from the original USS Texas during the days of filibusters against Mexico. It wasn't locked so I could read thru a sailors diary from the 1840s about his sailing out of Galveston en route to a filibuster, and an account of the Captain exacting justice from some failed sailors, hanging two from the yardarms and keelhauling a couple others, by casting them off one side of the Boat with a rope around the waist, then hauling them underneath and up on the other side so they got horribly scraped against the barnacle covered bottom.
It was a different time!
