THE SEARCH FOR THE TWIN SISTERS 1001 LOST TREASURES SERIES

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1836, at the Battle of San Jacinto in Texas, a pair a 6 pounder cannons called "The Twin Sisters" provided the opening shots that won the Battle and directly led to the surrender of the Mexican forces under General Santa Anna, giving Texas their freedom to form a republic. According to most historians, the cannons were seen stacked with other field pieces at a railroad depot in Galveston at the end of the war, and a handful of young confederate soldiers, not wanting to see these historic cannons to get into federal hands, took them apart and buried the brass cannons minus their wooden carriages. despite years of searching, these treasured remnants of Texas past have remained lost. This is the story of the "Twin Sisters" and the search for them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	.
0:31.0	Welcome back everyone to one thousand one heroes, legends, histories, and mysteries
0:36.0	podcast. This is your host John Heigdorn. We're launching a new series here in
0:41.0	2023 called Lost Treasure Legends and this is the first of many interesting
0:45.8	episodes packed with history and legend. As we all know, legends take many forms.
0:51.0	Legends of buried or missing treasure are my favorites. Sometimes treasure
0:56.0	legends are unproven, sometimes they're confirmed as actual lost objects,
1:00.0	and sometimes they're partially confirmed, such as the treasure of the Incas,
1:05.0	which we'll get around to in this series. The twin sister sounds like a missing
1:10.0	person story, or maybe a dream date night, or for sure a good beginning to a
1:15.0	Toby Keith bar song, but these two sisters were real heavyweights,
1:19.0	actually cannons. The two cannons that were a huge factor in the winning of the
1:24.0	Battle of San Jacinto, which won the state of Texas her independence back in 1836.
1:29.0	They've been missing for over 150 years, and there is a wealth of legends
1:34.0	circling around their disappearance and possible resting place.
1:38.0	To Texans, these cannons are the holy grail of Texas independence, and the
1:44.0	search continues round the clock. To the finder would go the laurels of the state
1:49.0	of Texas, and if nothing else would get you a free drafter doing any pub in
1:53.0	Texas, and probably box seats to the sports arena of your choice.
1:57.0	As we go forward, sometimes it might seem like we're repeating a story or a clue
2:02.0	to the location of the missing cannons, but you'll find that each story in each
2:06.0	new clue brings more tantalizing information, right down to the very end.
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