Thanks, Cincinnati <No OTR Content to speak of>

[Paul Soupiset <soupiset@toolbox.net>]

Oh Hi Oh!

Iıze researching some stuff for the Alamo and came across this today:

³... On November 17, 1835, after Francis Smith convinced the people of
Cincinnati, Ohio, to aid the cause of the Texas Revolution, the Ohioans
began raising funds to procure two cannons and their attendant equipment for
Texas. Since the United States was taking an official stance of neutrality
toward the rebellion in Texas, the citizens of Cincinnati referred to their
cannon as "hollow ware." Two guns, probably six pounders, were manufactured
at the foundry of Greenwood and Webb in Cincinnati and then shipped down the
Mississippi to New Orleans....²

Thanks, y'all. I might not be here if it werenıt for your forebears.

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