Ep. 41: The Horse Marines
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After the battle of San Jacinto, it wasn’t certain just how victorious the Texians were. Several Mexican generals commanded several thousand Mexican troops west of the battleground. Santa Anna indeed ordered them to leave Texas but if they could get resupplied, who knows what could happen? Enter Issac Burton and his horse marines! After failing out of West Point, Issac Burton commanded a company of Texas Rangers charged with patrolling the Texas coast near Refugio, looking for Mexican warships. It didn’t take long before he found one. Through a series of clever maneuvers, a few Texas Rangers managed to capture a total of three ships bound to supply the Mexican Army. Issac Burton’s Texas Rangers may very well have saved the Texas republic as they coined a new term that would be used by the U.S. military for over a century…the Horse Marines.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wise. I want to thank you very much |
| 0:15.1 | for your interest in Texas History and for tuning into this podcast. I want to start |
| 0:20.4 | the show today with a big announcement. |
| 0:24.2 | As of this episode, when this episode |
| 0:26.8 | downloads to the subscribers of the show, |
| 0:29.6 | and I hope you're a subscriber of the show. |
| 0:31.4 | If not, go to iTunes and hit subscribe to make sure you get the |
| 0:34.2 | latest episodes when this episode downloads we will have over 100,000 downloads of |
| 0:41.6 | Why's About Texas 100000. I never dreamed that this pet history project of mine would become so popular. I'm grateful of course I want to spread the message of Texas history and apparently it's working. I hope you'll take a minute to tell a friend about the |
| 0:54.8 | podcast and let's continue to preserve and promote Texas History. Well there's some other stuff happening |
| 1:01.3 | in connection with the podcast. I'm recording this in June 2017 and |
| 1:06.5 | this month I'll be doing some video introducing some historical sites that are going to be covered |
| 1:10.9 | by a Central Texas newspaper so they're going to publish my |
| 1:14.1 | video introductions to those historical sites. |
| 1:17.8 | And along those lines, I've got some other ideas. |
| 1:20.1 | I'm talking to some organizations about doing some more video in connection with the |
| 1:24.0 | podcast. I think that that's a great way to promote not just the podcast but the Texas |
| 1:31.3 | history locations that we travel to, I might set up a facility for |
| 1:37.0 | listeners to send their videos. If you're on your summer travels and traveling to some Texas history sites be sure and send me |
| 1:44.9 | some tweets some videos and Facebook some videos and let's we'll get those out |
| 1:50.8 | through the podcast social media. |
| 1:53.0 | Well, we just finished the season of the anniversary of the Texas Revolution, |
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