The outcome has never been in dispute, but rather in the presentation of the events, some insisted in all the credit, while others were content with 1/783rd of the credit. Perhaps a personal shortcoming, but I seldom have seen a politician who was a good general, much less one of historical greatness.
Sam Houston was, indeed a fabulous politician, one that Texas was not to see the equal until Landslide Lyndon.
Without the casualties wrought on Santa Annas numbers at the Alamo, there may have been no victory at San Jac.
That said, had Gen. Houston led the Mexican force into the Big Thicket, Santa Anna's men would have perished under the sights of the Texian marksmen in those dense forests.
So either way, Houston engineered a winning move, lost very few men under his command,kept his own counsel, became Texas' President, Governor and U.S. Senator and perhaps is deserving of the adulation that still holds.
“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”
[Sam Houston]
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