“Twin Sisters” a gift from Cincinnati

This Week in Texas History
At the largest mass meeting in living memory, the citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio expressed their enthusiastic support for the Texas Revolution on Nov. 17, 1835.Their sincere statement of solidarity did not satisfy the Cincinnatians, who wanted to make a concrete contribution to the cause. So the hat was passed until sufficient funds were collected to buy the Texans something they could rea...

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