War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to Key Battles of the Texas Revolution.

This is episode six and it's our last regular episode in the series. We're going to talk about the epilogue, the aftermath, and the legacy

of the revolution, and then we're going to spend a little bit of time talking about

what happened to some of the main players in the revolution on both sides after the war.

So we'll begin with the obvious thing, participation in casualties.

How many people actually participated in the war and how many casualties were there?

And of course, before I go on, I should say Sean is with me as always.

All right, Sean, are you ready to wrap this thing up?

Let's go.

It's been a quick series.

Of course, it was a quick war, so that's appropriate, I think.

All right.

So we'll start with, we're going to have several quotes from William C. Davis.

He's got some really good ones here on this topic. And William C. Davis begins our, is going to begin our episode.

And he says this, quote, probably no more than 3,700 Texians, 3,700, served as volunteers or

regulars during the entire period of the revolution, and most of them enlisted for no more than a

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