[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 59 (Tuesday, April 24, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H2042]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            SAN JACINTO DAY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Womack). The Chair recognizes the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gene Green) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to commemorate the 
176th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto. Last Saturday, the 
State of Texas celebrated April 21, 1836, when Texas forces led by 
General Sam Houston dealt a decisive blow to General Antonio Lopez de 
Santa Anna.
  Several weeks after the signing of the Texas Declaration of 
Independence in March 1836, roughly 900 members of the Texas Army 
overpowered a much larger Mexican Army in a surprise attack.
  Texas soldiers ran and shouted, ``Remember the Alamo'' and ``Remember 
Goliad.'' Some 700 Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured, while 
only 9 Texans died. General Santa Anna was captured the following day. 
He signed the peace treaties that ordered the Mexican Army to leave 
Texas, paving the way for the Republic of Texas to become an 
independent country and later a State in our great country.
  The battle was memorialized along Buffalo Bayou and San Jacinto River 
with the San Jacinto Monument in east Harris County. It is in our 
congressional district.
  God bless Texas and God bless the United States of America.

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