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Title: Combats and conquests of immortal heroes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Barnes, Charles Merritt
Subjects: San Antonio (Tex.) -- History Texas -- History
Publisher: San Antonio, Tex. : Guessaz & Ferlet company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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heavy loads of human trouble—■Though many eyes in tear drops languishWhile many hearts beat full of anguish,Still all such days we so are spending,Such nights—such years, iTiust have their ending,While they to us are surely sendingDays, nights and years with bliss attending.When those same eyes shall all beam brightlyAnd those same hearts shall all beat lightly.For life still hath, though much of sadness,Some golden gleams of grateful gladness.It hath its days of mirth and pleasure.It hath its nights of calm and leisure;Its years, that bring, in bounteous measureTheir heavy hoards of harvest treasure.Unless, sometimes, our sun ceased shining,Whilst veild by clouds of silvry lining.Such constant sunshine then, of ours,Would kill the vines that form our bowers;While, had we never any showersWed surely miss their fruit and flowers.So let Fair Hope • each morn awake usAnd never let her hand forsake us.Let cares and tears but serve to make usPrize more those joys that overtake us.
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Combats and Conquests of Immortal Hkroes 55STORY OF SAN JACINTO SUITABLE SEQUEL TO THE ALAMOS SAD SANGUINARY STRUGGLE.SANTA ANNA AND HIS MYRMIDONS MEET WITH UTTER ROUT. Fitting was the finale and suitable the sequel at San Jacinto,to the sad, sanguinary struggle so futile at the Alamo in SanAntonio and the brutal butchery at Goliad. Inseparablylinked to them was the story of San Jacinto. Its events occurredsoon after the Alamo had fallen at San Antonio and Fanninand his faithful force, having surrendered at Goliad underregularly signed terms of capitulation subscribed by Fanninand his Mexican adversary, Urrca. On March 17, 1835, Fanninscommand capitulated. On March 21, they were led out andmurdered, notwithstanding the stipulated terms of surrenderaccording promises of life and safe conduct to their homes.Urrea and Ugartachea had marched straight on from SanAntonio almost immediately after the Alamo fell. They wentdirect to Goliad. Fannin was just evacuating the old La BahiaMission ne

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