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Northern physician asserted that a Southern physician could not practice in the North and the Southern physician assorted that the Northerners could not practice South, as the climate was so different that what would cure in one section would kill in the other. And they settled it by meeting in Cincinnati and taking a course of lectures. My father, Dr. Charles W. Rice, went North in the beginning of the year to take a course also. Among my father's friends was a gentleman by the name of Lewis Allan, who lived with my father, a refined, true Christian gentleman, and my father loved him, as their characters assimilated. In the latter part of 1836, Mr. Lewis Allan was made a captain, and the ladies of Cincinnati bought the cannon and presented it to the company, and Colonel Lewis Allan, my father's old friend named the cannon after myself and twin sister.
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sister, Elizabeth and
Eleanor Rice, daughter of Dr. Charles W. Rice, who joined the army as surgeon in 1836 and came to Texas in defense of her liberty. And I am the wife of H.S. Stapp, an old Texan, who came to Texas in the year 1833 and served his country in every crisis. He stood guard at 16, belonged to the Rangers in 1845 and was a true patriot for his country, an honest man.
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operations were in the memorable field of San
Jacinto, where they contributed greatly to the achievement of a victory not often paralleled in the annals, of war. I doubt not their voices will again be heard, and their power be felt in the great and interesting cause to which they were dedicated by your liberality, and in the advancement of which we are so arduously engaged.
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Captain Allan went to Mexico with his company in, I think, the latter part of 1836, was a brave man and was made
Colonel, and when he returned to New Orleans the ladies presented him with a sword and gave him a public dinner. God help him, I say, wherever he is is the prayer of this old veteran Texas
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Should our enemy have the temerity to renew his attempt to subjugate our delightful country, the voices of the TWIN SISTERS of
Cincinnati, will yet send their reverberations beyond the Rio Grande, and carry unusual terror into many a Mexican hamlet. Texas has no desire to extend her conquests beyond
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Well, I must crave your mercy and go back again to 1836 and tell why the Twin
Sisters were name after my twin sister and myself. In the beginning of the year 1836 the Medical College of Ohio met at Cincinnati to take a course of lectures under Professors Crop, Eberley, Buster, Black and other great
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Elizabeth Mars (née Rice) Stapp in a letter to the editor of The Houston Daily Post on August 24, 1897 — 61 years after the Battle of San Jacinto. It was published in the post (Vol. THIRTEENTH YEAR, No. 147, Ed. 1) on Sunday, August 29, 1897:
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To the Editor of The Post, Carranchua Bay, Jackson County, Texas, August 24 — Some time ago you said in your paper that you would like to know where the Twin
Sisters were and how they received their names. I being an old veterans daughter and wife, can tell you. They were named for myself and twin
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Mexican forces. With major combat over in 18 minutes, a 1.5:1 strength ratio, and a 28:1 casualty ratio, it is considered by some historians among the most one-sided victories in history. The Twins Sisters final role in the revolution were providing security for the 300
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To you, gentlemen, and to the citizens of Cincinnati, who have manifested so generous a sympathy in our cause, I beg leave to tender the warmest thanks of a people who are contending for their liberties and their lives, against a numerous nation of semi-savages, whose cruelty is equalled only by
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Gentlemen: Two beautiful pieces of "hollow-ware," lately presented to us, through your agency, by the citizens of Cincinnati, as a free-will offering to the cause of human liberty, were received very opportunely, and have become conspicuous in our struggle for independence. Their first effective
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her own natural and appropriate limits, but if the war must be prosecuted against us, after abundant evidence of its futility has been exhibited to the enemy and the world, other land than our own must sustain a portion of its ravages.
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officers dedicated to promoting freedom. Approximately 59 veterans of the American Revolutionary War are buried in Texas and at least 4 are known to have also fought in the Texas Revolution: Benjamin W. Anderson,
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92 days after the Battle of San Jacinto. It was written on July 22, 1836 and published in the Telegraph and Texas Register (Columbia, TX Vol. 1, No. 27, Ed. 1) on Tuesday, August 30, 1836:
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who freely provided refuge to the Texian cause. Stalled by the "sea of mud" from April showers, the detachment completed the 60 mile trip on April 13. They are received by
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The old, old cannon did its duty well and lies disabled and worn out at Galveston. They did their duty well, but useless now as the writer of these old-time reminiscences.
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Permit me, gentlemen, to tender to you, and to your fellow-citizens who have rendered Texas much efficient aid, assurances if my profound esteem.
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1971:"Death Claims Last Survivor of Little Band That Buried "Twin Sisters""
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Sarah and Cornelia Disney / wife and daughter of purported financier
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led a fund raising initiative for the cannons because he believed
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Executive Department, Republic of Texas, Velasco, July 23, 1836.
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Thomas F. Corry, an emigrant from Cincinnati who served in the
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students "borrowed" a Twin from the capitol and fired it for
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Texian Iliad – A Military History of the Texas Revolution
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1896:"Report of the Secretary of War and Marine 23 June 1842"
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University of North, Texas Libraries (August 30, 1836).
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1068:List of conflicts involving the Texas Military
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690:1859, used for Sam Houston's inauguration as
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358:They arrived on April 3 and were received by
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1921:Texas State Library and Archives Commission
1894:Hockley, George Washington (July 6, 1842).
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1038:1985, Twin Sisters exhibit featured in the
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1186:"The Search for the Twin Sisters"
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1042:. Fabricated by students at
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2025:"Mrs. Disney of Cincinnati"
1841:"The Battle of San Jacinto"
1533:"SEATON, GEORGE WASHINGTON"
1293:The Portal to Texas History
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128:(Signed) DAVID G. BURNET
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1949:Dyer, Joseph O. (1917).
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1496:"PLASTER, THOMAS PLINEY"
1477:"POE, GEORGE WASHINGTON"
865:Colonel James Davidson,
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1993:The Dallas Morning News
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360:Colonel Edward Harcourt
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1571:"GREER, THOMAS N.B."
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647:San Felipe de Austin
565:PVT John P. Ferrell
543:Richardson A. Scurry
340:San Felipe de Austin
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195:Elizabeth M. Stapp.
125:Your ob,'t serv.'t,
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1938:. pp. 141–142.
1627:"DUNHAM, DANIEL T."
1381:Kemp, Louis Wiltz.
1364:"CLOPPER, NICHOLAS"
1345:"CLOPPER, ANDREW M"
1330:Official Alamo Blog
1190:Early Texas History
1013:University of Texas
792:Henry North Graves
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685:BBB&C Railway's
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600:Treaties of Velasco
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415:Bernardo Plantation
362:. Secretary of War
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2013:. January 4, 1872.
2007:"The Twin Sisters"
1859:Hardin, Stephen L.
1816:The Sea Hunters II
1776:"FERRELL, JOHN P."
1418:"Stephen Williams"
1383:"CORRY, THOMAS F."
1308:"THE TWIN SISTERS"
1271:Texas History Page
1267:"The Twin Sisters"
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