EP. 51: The Schooner Flash, a Revolutionary Ship.
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Flash was a schooner built in Connecticut for a new enterprise in Texas. She came to Texas in possession of James Morgan to support his new endeavor, a town and community called New Washington. But as war clouds gathered, Morgan mounted an 18 pounder on her foredeck and commissioned her Captain into the Texas Navy. From commerce to combat, rescuing refugees to carrying cannon, the Flash did it all during the Texas revolution. Her noble service ended quickly after her Captain was replaced with someone who apparently couldn’t find the largest harbor in Texas. The Flash carried some of the most important cargo in Texas history, presidents, cannon, even important groceries. Hear the story of the schooner Flash in this 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 |
| 0:15.1 | for tuning in for some Texas history. I want to begin today by thinking everyone for |
| 0:20.3 | the universally positive feedback on the 50th episode of Wise About Texas and the origins of the Texas Rangers. |
| 0:28.0 | That episode made the point that though there's a lot of discussion around when the official Texas Rangers started, |
| 0:36.0 | the ranging function was critical to pre-Republic and early Republic Texas. |
| 0:41.0 | So it really didn't matter when the official Texas Rangers got their start, although it is |
| 0:48.7 | very fun to discuss. |
| 0:51.2 | It just matters that the phenomenon of the ranger began in the earliest settlement periods of Texas and of course continues to today with some evolution of course in the way they do their business and I'm |
| 1:06.2 | looking forward to some great episodes I've got some great suggestions coming |
| 1:09.4 | in from that last episode and we're going to talk a lot about the individuals who served in the |
| 1:15.8 | Rangers and we're going to talk a lot about great episodes in Ranger history so |
| 1:21.3 | thank you very much for so many of you listening to that and we got a lot |
| 1:25.2 | of new listeners from that episode. Well we're in the high holy days of Texas history |
| 1:30.4 | between the fall of the Alamo and the Battle of San Joseno and this is a great time to talk about things related to the revolution and we're going to do that today. |
| 1:39.0 | There are many celebrations around the state during this time so keep that in mind and |
| 1:45.8 | no matter where you are go out and celebrate Texas independence. |
| 1:49.4 | Sandra's Senate Day is coming up we all know that's April 21st. It falls on a Saturday this year, so I've dubbed the week before San Jacin a week, |
| 1:58.0 | and I'll be speaking on April 17th, or April 18th, excuse me, April 18th at the annual dinner benefiting the San Jacena Museum. I'm looking forward to that. |
| 2:10.0 | And definitely will be with my family on April 21st at the San Jacna Battleground for the annual San Joseana Day remembrance, which is in the morning at 10 o'clock, I believe, and the battle reenactment will be that afternoon |
| 2:26.1 | there'll be a festival around those events on the ground on the battleground and |
| 2:29.9 | it's always a great time I've been taking my daughter out there since she was about three. |
| 2:35.0 | And that's something we always look forward to. |
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