2024-05-09 10:10:30
The Texas King Leonidas was a man of the most dubious reputation, a drinker and swindler, speculator and slave trader, soldier of fortune and knife stabber, and so skilled in this discipline that a martial murder instrument with a standing twenty-centimeter blade is named after him to this day. Nevertheless, James Bowie, like the legendary ruler of Sparta, is revered as a shining hero, a selfless fighter for freedom and fatherland: in the heart of San Antonio, a colossal monument in the style of real socialist real patheticism glorifies Bowie and his comrades-in-arms in a life-size half-relief as patriotic martyrs, because they too fought their battle for eternity – not in 480 BC, but in the spring of 1836, not at Thermopylae, but at the San Antonio River, not against the all-powerful king of the Persians, but against the irascible dictator of Mexico.
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