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Jameslaw121

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7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Going to have to read that - not many biographies get such high ratings from hundreds of reviewers.

Reading the Houston ISD website about the school named after him, turns out that they made a G.I.Joe action figure of him about 15 years ago.

Anybody else mentioned in this thread have a G.I. Joe action figure created for them?  Didn't think so. 

Yeah, well, Jim Bowie has a fucking knife named after him.

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BottleRocket

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On 5/8/2018 at 1:19 AM, Longhorn Al said:

My great-great-great grandpa and uncle fought alongside men like Burleson, Hays, Wallace, McCulloch, Caldwell, Gillespie, Ackland, Lucky, and Highsmith.  So I'm going to add their names.

Jim Galbreath

Tom Galbreath (very good friends with Bigfoot)

My great-great-great grandpa was Ed Burleson who fought alongside your old Jim Galbreath.

 

From wiki:

Known as the "Old Indian Fighter", Burleson was a veteran of the War of 1812 and had served in the Missouri and Texas militias. In October 1835 he was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the Texas army and served under Stephen F. Austin in the opening stages of the Texas Revolution. During the Siege of Béxar, Burleson served as the second-in-command to Gen. Austin, and in November, 1835 he was elected Major General of Texas Volunteers and took command of the volunteer army besieging San Antonio de Béxar and received the surrender of Mexican general Martín Perfecto de Cos. In March, he was appointed a Colonel of Texas Regulars and led the First Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Runaway Scrape and at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Edward was the son of James B. Burleson, a company captain in the volunteer American army in the War of 1812 and later a participant in the Texas Revolution, as a Captain under his son's command. Edward learned of life in the field as an aide to his father, who could neither read nor write. Aaron Burleson, his grandfather, had fought as a minuteman in the Revolutionary War.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu40

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Zavala

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Lorenzo de Zavala

After exile, he returned to Mexico and was appointed as Minister to France. While serving in Paris, Zavala saw that Mexican President Santa Anna was becoming a military-backed dictator, ignoring the Mexican Constitution that Zavala had helped write. Zavala resigned his position in protest and spoke out against Santa Anna. After this schism, Zavala could not return home and fled to Texas, then a Mexican territory, where he owned land. He eventually became an advocate of Texas independence to the point of helping in the drafting of the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, personally designing its flag, and serving as Vice President.

Some Mexicans consider Zavala a traitor to his homeland for supporting Texas independence, while Texans consider him a founding father and state hero. In modern-day Texas, there is a county and a city named for him, as well as many schools and public buildings including the Texas State Archives and Library Building in Austin.

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Just because he isn't getting adequate play here:

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Second Lieutenant Audie L. Murphy, 01692509, 15th Infantry, Army of the United States, on 26 January 1945, near Holtzwihr, France, commanded Company B, which was attacked by six tanks and waves of infantry. Lieutenant Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to a prepared position in a woods while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. Behind him to his right one of our tank destroyers received a direct hit and began to burn. It's crew withdrew to the woods. Lieutenant Murphy continued to direct artillery fire which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. With the enemy tanks abreast of his position, Lieutenant Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer which was in danger of blowing up any instant and employed its .50 caliber machine gun against the enemy. He was alone and exposed to the German fire from three sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waver. the enemy tanks, losing infantry support, began to fall back. For an hour the Germans tried every available weapon to eliminated Lieutenant Murphy, but he continued to hold his position and wiped out a squad which was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. Germans reached as close as 10 yards only to be mowed down by his fire. He received a leg wound but ignored it and continued the single-handed fight until his ammunition was exhausted. He then made his way to his company, refused medical attention, and organized the company in a counterattack which forced the Germans to withdraw. His directing of artillery fire wiped out many of the enemy; he personally killed or wounded about 50. Lieutenant Murphy's indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of ground saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction and enabled it to hold the woods which had been the enemy's objective.

And that was just his finale.

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On 5/15/2018 at 11:45 AM, BottleRocket said:

My great-great-great grandpa was Ed Burleson who fought alongside your old Jim Galbreath.

 

From wiki:

Known as the "Old Indian Fighter", Burleson was a veteran of the War of 1812 and had served in the Missouri and Texas militias. In October 1835 he was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the Texas army and served under Stephen F. Austin in the opening stages of the Texas Revolution. During the Siege of Béxar, Burleson served as the second-in-command to Gen. Austin, and in November, 1835 he was elected Major General of Texas Volunteers and took command of the volunteer army besieging San Antonio de Béxar and received the surrender of Mexican general Martín Perfecto de Cos. In March, he was appointed a Colonel of Texas Regulars and led the First Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Runaway Scrape and at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Edward was the son of James B. Burleson, a company captain in the volunteer American army in the War of 1812 and later a participant in the Texas Revolution, as a Captain under his son's command. Edward learned of life in the field as an aide to his father, who could neither read nor write. Aaron Burleson, his grandfather, had fought as a minuteman in the Revolutionary War.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu40

Edburleson.jpg

 

You and I are related. 

Edward's nephew was Jacob, who fought alongside him several times.  I am Jacob's great X several greats grandson.  Edward led the first charge at San Jacinto, he later served as Vice President of Texas under Sam Houston, he designed the layout of downtown Austin's streets, and he was the first person buried at the State Cemetery.  His grave is on the hill, immediately surrounded by Bob Bullock, Barbara Jordan, and Colonel James Fannin, and a stones throw from Stephen F. Austin.  There is also a bust of Edward in the lobby of the State Cemetery entrance.  Jacob died fighting Indians with him at Brushy Creek and was later moved to the State Cemetery as well, in a different section.

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BottleRocket

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9 hours ago, Your Mom said:

You and I are related. 

Edward's nephew was Jacob, who fought alongside him several times.  I am Jacob's great X several greats grandson.  Edward led the first charge at San Jacinto, he later served as Vice President of Texas under Sam Houston, he designed the layout of downtown Austin's streets, and he was the first person buried at the State Cemetery.  His grave is on the hill, immediately surrounded by Bob Bullock, Barbara Jordan, and Colonel James Fannin, and a stones throw from Stephen F. Austin.  There is also a bust of Edward in the lobby of the State Cemetery entrance.  Jacob died fighting Indians with him at Brushy Creek and was later moved to the State Cemetery as well, in a different section.

 

Mom!

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I'm pretty sure Edwin Waller originally designed Austin's streets.

You and I are related. 
Edward's nephew was Jacob, who fought alongside him several times.  I am Jacob's great X several greats grandson.  Edward led the first charge at San Jacinto, he later served as Vice President of Texas under Sam Houston, he designed the layout of downtown Austin's streets, and he was the first person buried at the State Cemetery.  His grave is on the hill, immediately surrounded by Bob Bullock, Barbara Jordan, and Colonel James Fannin, and a stones throw from Stephen F. Austin.  There is also a bust of Edward in the lobby of the State Cemetery entrance.  Jacob died fighting Indians with him at Brushy Creek and was later moved to the State Cemetery as well, in a different section.
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Don't fuck with this guy. 

On Feb. 2, 1949, Hogan and his wife, Valerie, narrowly survived a head-on collision with a Greyhound bus in Texas. In a successful attempt to save his wife's life by throwing himself in front of her, Hogan likely also saved his own life since the steering column punctured he driver's seat.

Hogan, 36 at the time, suffered a double-fracture of the pelvis, a fractured collar bone, a left ankle fracture, a chipped rib, and near-fatal blood clots: he would suffer lifelong circulation problems and other physical limitations.

Fifty-nine days after the accident, Hogan was out of the hospital and by November of that year, he resumed golf activities.

In that LA Open return, Hogan was outstanding, eventually losing a playoff to Sam Snead.

Post-accident, Hogan would win 11 more times on the PGA Tour, including six of his nine major championships. One of those majors was the 1950 U.S. Open at Merion, site of his iconic 1-iron shot, just a little more than a year after the accident.

ben-hogan-signed-photo-60483.jpg?h=1000

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3 hours ago, Longhornstampede said:

Don't fuck with this guy. 

On Feb. 2, 1949, Hogan and his wife, Valerie, narrowly survived a head-on collision with a Greyhound bus in Texas. In a successful attempt to save his wife's life by throwing himself in front of her, Hogan likely also saved his own life since the steering column punctured he driver's seat.

Hogan, 36 at the time, suffered a double-fracture of the pelvis, a fractured collar bone, a left ankle fracture, a chipped rib, and near-fatal blood clots: he would suffer lifelong circulation problems and other physical limitations.

Fifty-nine days after the accident, Hogan was out of the hospital and by November of that year, he resumed golf activities.

In that LA Open return, Hogan was outstanding, eventually losing a playoff to Sam Snead.

Post-accident, Hogan would win 11 more times on the PGA Tour, including six of his nine major championships. One of those majors was the 1950 U.S. Open at Merion, site of his iconic 1-iron shot, just a little more than a year after the accident.

ben-hogan-signed-photo-60483.jpg?h=1000

Iconic picture is iconic.

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