By Gary Brown
James Walker Fannin. Illegitimate son. Southern gentleman. Failed businessman. committed relations guy. unlawful slave dealer. brave martyr. Tarnished hero of the revolution. yet what's the remainder of the tale? writer Gary Brown brings to existence a radical and insightful research of this arguable and infrequently misunderstood ancient determine, whom such a lot have in mind because the commander who misplaced two times as many males as have been killed on the Alamo and San Jacinto mixed. Now the tale might be thoroughly tested with assistance from all Fannin's recognized correspondence through the crusade at Goliad. learn and decide for your self if historical past has been reasonable to James Walker Fannin.
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1 The committee, comprised of Austin Colony's prominent settlers, did not include James Fannin. By July these resolutions had resulted in other Anglo colonies organizing and a general call for a consultation of all municipalities on July 14 at San Felipe. At that meeting, the demand for a consultation of all Texans was defeated, and the general tone was conciliatory toward Mexican authorities. They did, however, call for two representatives to Page 29 negotiate with Santa Anna's brother-in-law, General Martin Perfecto de Cos.
Fannin Jr. , Book A, Brazoria County Courthouse, p. 222, dated December 2, 1839. Page 27 6. Guthrie, Keith, Texas Forgotten Ports Volume II (Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1993), pp. 1045. 7. Wharton, pg. 26. 8. Ibid. Page 28 Chapter Four Revolutionary Rhetoric Back in Texas, events were also taking a turn for the worse. In June 1835 a second incident took place in Anahuac. Angered over the arrest of a colonist there, several Texans including William Barret Travis captured the Mexican fort and customshouse and forced the evacuation of Mexican soldiers.
As a Texas hero, he has not been treated kindly with the passage of time. His place in Texas history has always been relegated to a footnote for the Alamo martyrs and the victory at San Jacinto. Unfairly, he is remembered as the commander who lost twice as many men as were killed at the Alamo and San Jacinto combined. Texas has not been willing to forget him, but historians have not hesitated to label him with negative terms: Blind ambition, indecision, lack of strategy, underestimation of the enemy, reliance upon "councils of war," and lack of attention to crucial details quickly come to mind.