Ep. 39: Texas wins the American Revolution
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In 1777 Bernardo de Galvez became governor of Louisiana. As a Spaniard, he was cheering for a colonial victory in the revolution. He made sure supplies made it up the Mississippi to George Washington’s Continental Army. When the Spanish crown authorized Galvez to fight the British, he called on Texas! Galvez turned to Texas to feed his army and in doing so, invented the cattle drive! He was very successful against the British and was a tremendous asset to the liberation of the colonies and the birth of the United States. Hear about the important role of Texas in the American Revolution in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. This is your host, Ken Wise, and I want to thank you very much |
| 0:16.0 | for tuning into this episode 39. It is hard to believe that we are up to 39 episodes over the past year and a half the show has been |
| 0:24.9 | downloaded over 89,000 times in 54 countries and I never thought when I |
| 0:32.1 | started this project that we'd get to that point. |
| 0:35.0 | I will say for some reason we do not have a download in South Dakota. |
| 0:39.0 | So if anybody out there knows anyone in South Dakota, let's make that the 50th state. We were in |
| 0:44.0 | the other 49 in a couple of territories. And I'm still having just a ton of fun |
| 0:48.6 | doing this podcast and I really appreciate how well received it's been. |
| 0:53.7 | And we've just finished the high holy season of Texas history |
| 0:57.9 | culminating in the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto |
| 1:01.6 | on April 21st. The Texas Revolution is always a fascinating subject and |
| 1:07.9 | there were so many moving parts you never really get to the bottom of the |
| 1:11.7 | Texas Revolution. When you know one of the bottom of the Texas Revolution. |
| 1:13.2 | When you know one of the challenges of doing this podcast is approaching the |
| 1:16.5 | revolution in a way that we can keep talking about different aspects of it year |
| 1:21.4 | after year and aren't stuck just covering one |
| 1:23.7 | subject at a time and never being able to do that subject again because you just be |
| 1:29.0 | repeating yourself. The approach that I'm taking on the podcast is to tell smaller pieces of the bigger picture |
| 1:36.2 | so that we don't exhaust the topic. |
| 1:38.1 | And I think I'm going to do that with some of the other big subjects of Texas history |
| 1:42.3 | that I need to start addressing such as the Indian tribes |
| 1:46.1 | and the settling of Texas and the Texas Rangers, Sam Houston, that sort of thing. |
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