Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, your Texas History Podcast. I'm your host, Ken Wise.

Thank you very much for tuning into part two of the Twin Sisters.

This episode is being recorded and released in April 2020,

which is not only the month of the 184th anniversary of the use of the

Twin Sister cannons at the Battle of San Jacino.

But it's also right in the middle of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

If you've been listening, I've been releasing several episodes about Texas Historical Commission sites related to the Texas Revolution.

San Jacino is on that list and in the next couple of weeks,

and more toward the anniversary will be closing out that series. So hopefully the stay-at-home orders

that we're under here in Texas will be lifted shortly and we can all go visit these great historic sites.

Well in part one of the Twin Sisters,

we covered the manufacture of the Twin Sisters

in Cincinnati, Ohio,

their arrival in Texas, and that fateful day when they were the key

to the Texian victory over Santa Ana.

Now you'd think these cannons, the only artillery at the Battle of San Jacinto for the Texians would be housed in a prominent place in a museum somewhere.

But they aren't.

In fact, we don't know where they are.

That's right, we've lost them.

Two of the most treasured artifacts in Texas history have disappeared.

Where could they be? Well, in circumstances like these, as you might expect, theories abound.

So let's take a look at a couple of the theories about where the

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