As always, Danno, you do an exemplary job. Almost too good, really --- you do such a good job of DESCRIBING the book that I feel like I've already read it!

Okay, I'm a wuss when it comes to historical non-fiction, I admit it. Biographies are more my speed. Military theory & practice go right over my snoring head. But hey, YOU made it sound really cool!

Nighty-night.
Keep up the good work.
XO
Anntichrist S. Coulter | Homepage | 03.22.08 - 4:58 am | #

This one's going on my list. I will, indeedn, head to my local independent bookstore; does amazon.com count? Just kiddin'. (about the amazon.com I mean) Gotta love field artillery. I wonder if my local independent arms dealer can supply me some?
kimopizza | 03.22.08 - 8:24 am | #

I read the words in big print and shouted out loud: "Great idea! It's about time!"

Then I saw it was just some book. How dare you get peoples' hopes up like that?
Bukko in Australia | 03.22.08 - 1:35 pm | #

Dan, I just can’t imagine why sombody’d waste their time readin’ history books like this when there’s a new season of American Idol on.

I mean, what possible relevance could this book have in America today, huh?
Dave von Ebers | Homepage | 03.22.08 - 3:53 pm | #

Santa Anna betrayed us?

That bastard!
bob the hog | 03.22.08 - 4:08 pm | #

democommie™™™™™©®ç is out shooting people who already died? Hmmm...wonder if he's shooting cannons. Fire in the Hole!

Well, anyway...we shoulda left the Mexicans alone. But then we shoulda left the Native Americans alone too.

If my ancestors had just stayed home instead of chasing that illusory American Dream, I could be living in Sweden now.
Arkinsaw | Homepage | 03.22.08 - 8:18 pm | #

I'm finding out about Santa Anna's betrayal right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic.
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James Matalin Frist Carville | 03.22.08 - 8:19 pm | #

This topic comes up a lot in my local rag's online forums. A lot of guilty-feeling yankees seem to think that the surge of undocumented immigrants from south of the border is a plot to retake Texas and portions of New Mexico, Arizona, and California by stealth. Sorta the same way the US took Texas, New Mexico, etc. I read Howard Zinn's chapter in A People's History of the U.S. to bone up on the subject. Growing up in Texas, I got a very one-sided picture of the whole affair. I would welcome a more thorough treatment of it.
democratic socialist | 03.22.08 - 8:44 pm | #

demo, did somebody tip off the gabachos about the reconquista? damn, man.
kimopizza | 03.23.08 - 3:15 pm | #

SeattleDan&Tammy:

Sometimes people ask me why can't I do a civil war? And I just tell them that we never, ever, do a civil war. We always do an uncivil war. But this one, we'll start if nice and civil but then we'll finish it real uncivil.
democommie™™™™™©®ç åü | 03.24.08 - 11:58 pm | #

Thanks, demo. We hope you're travels are going well.
SeattleDan | Homepage | 03.25.08 - 1:27 am | #