INVITATION TO A LIVE-STREAM EVENT

[kurtvd19]

All are invited to attend the event below.  The Texas Navy Association and the Texas Maritime Museum are holding a live-stream event on April 8, 2021 and have extended the invitation to all MSW members.

LONE STAR NAVY: Texas, the Fight for the

Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West.

By

Jonathan W. Jordan

Join us Thursday evening, April 8, 2021, at 7 p.m. US Central Time for a free online presentation by Jonathan W. Jordan, author of the award-winning book “LONE STAR NAVY: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West.” Jon will describe the fluid international situation leading up to the campaign, the Battle of Campeche and its startling outcome, and how the battle profoundly altered the fate of Texas, Mexico, and the United States.

This program will be live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube, here:

https://www.facebook.com/texasnavyassociation/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkVwERIw7aNamFNgqum3zw

For more information about the program, visit the Texas Navy Association here:

https://texasnavy.org/Jonathan-Jordan-Webinar

Throughout its decade-long existence, the Republic of Texas was never really at peace. Texians struggled to keep the independence they won from a Mexico that refused to admit defeat. A critical part of Texas’ defense was the Republic’s Navy, which often deployed its warships deep into the Gulf of Mexico and the western Caribbean, striking at Mexico City’s commerce and forces, and supporting revolutionary allies in Mexican provinces like Yucatan and Tabasco.

The battle to secure Texas independence culminated in May 1843, when two sailing vessels of the Texas Navy, under Commodore Edwin Moore, engaged a Mexican squadron lead by two iron-hulled steamships armed with ultramodern explosive shell-firing guns. The fate of the republic – and the American West -- hung in the balance. . . .

This program is sponsored through the generous support of the Texas Maritime Museum in Rockport, Texas. The museum’s mission is to offer a variety of experiences to children and adults by collecting, preserving, and interpreting items of historical interest for educational purposes; to recount Texas maritime history through artifacts, documents, and other materials of unique or historical value; and to exhibit items to further the public interest, knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of such material and related historical background.

The Museum’s collections and exhibits are based on four central themes: (1) the history and technology of offshore petroleum production and transportation; (2) the history and development of Texas seaports, maritime communities and maritime commerce along the Gulf of Mexico; (3) the exploration and settlement history of the Texas Gulf Coast beginning with the Spanish and French; and (4) the Texas seafood and fishing industry.

For more information about the Texas Maritime Museum, visit:

https://www.texasmaritimemuseum.org/

[TBlack]

Sounds interesting. Thanks, Kurt, for getting us included.

Tom