The dramatic conclusion of the Texas Revolution. A two-hundred day conflict ended in eighteen minutes.
This video was inspired by Warhawk's series on the Texas revolution, along with my own personal connection to Texas.
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Here's a link to their Texas Revolution playlist where you can find many more great in-depth videos on the revolution: • Texas Revolution
Also thanks to both Epic History for the inspiration of the flow and music of the video, and history march for creating such an Iconic style that helps us teach history.
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Thanks for watching.
Minor notes no one will care about:
the left flank of the Texan army was made of volunteers, but militia sounded better and more accurately described the force.
The Texan flag is slightly outdated for this battle, rather it should be the "liberty flag", but the blue and gold looked better for the blue color of the Texan troops.
I overlooked a Texan counter advance on the Mexican cannon which failed on the first day in the interest of time and pacing.
Most of the children killed were musicians in the army, and the "Women" killed is limited to a confirmed single death of a female combatant, but it is likely a few more were run down from the aids and staff members in the mexican camp.
There were a few skirmishes in the woods to the left of the texan line, which is how the Mexican army was alerted to the advance. I however couldn't show them with the scale and flow of the battle.
Though the ending line claims Texas gained official independence from Mexico, Mexico never agreed that Texas was free. In spite of this, I had the script claim that Texas was independent as it flowed better and gave a more simple and accurate idea of how much control Mexico had in Texas after the war.
You will see that a cube behind Houston shoots right as he rides in front of them. This is in reference to the fact that Houston was likely shot by his own men in the fighting.
A mexican general was spotted fleeing across the nearby lake, which is what happened to the commander flag that fled to the right of the screen across the small stream.
The Mexican attack ordered by Santa Anna which Huffines talked about is likely overexaggerated, rather it was probably an order that was given that wasn't able to be followed through to the length I had it shown. (Sorry about that one, I didn't think this would get enough attention so as to look further into that)
The line "fight for your lives" is not as explained as I wanted it to be. The reason for the quote is due to the bridge being the only way out for either army, so by destroying it, smith had effectively turned it into a winner takes all. So much so that Santa Anna would have escaped across it were it not for the destruction.
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