IIRC the cannon was on the main street of the town (Congress Avenue). When she saw what was going on, she ran down the street to where the cannon was and fired it. As for why it was loaded, it had grapeshot loaded to help defend the town from raids by the natives in the region.
What about i summon the angry parts of all the countries in Europe? I think they can stop Texas Squad Bavaria! Sicily! Marsiglia! Catalonia! Scotland! ASSEMBLEEEEEE
Actually, this particular cannon was actually publicly owned for the town’s defense against the natives who weren’t too happy they were there. Seize the means of cannon production!
You should definitely look up the “County Seat Wars” that happened here in West Virginia after the Civil War. Essentially, there were several counties where the new railroads didn’t go through the old county seats and the railroad companies wanted them to be moved to the new towns that had sprung up around the railroads. In one particular instance in Tucker County, around a thousand people from the railroad town of Parsons invaded the county seat of St George, broke into the court house, stole all of the records and documents, and even the bell from the bell tower, and took it all back home to Parsons. Now Parsons is the county seat, and St George is just a cluster of houses on a back road.
Hold up did the invasion ruin the town of Saint George or it was going to be a backwater town anyway otherwise that kind fuck up of the Parson residents. I don't know even know if county seats have more power or privileges back then but unless it was an act of out of a pure pride, this was kind of heinous
@@wietomeiborg1934 very different a country with the capability to create and substain multiple armies vs a territory with a population under 500k fighting against a major regional power with millions of people
@@bignuts8079 that’s what I’m saying Texas with just a couple hundred thousand people went up against a major regional power but Mexico was never a superpower it got its ass handed to it by the US and almost conquered by France
I love being from Texas. This was required learning in 7th grade and I loved it. There’s a reason why a lot of us still love Texas even if we’re far from home. God Bless the Lone Star State
Minnesota, too, had a conflict over their capital, although it was bit calmer. While Minnesota was still a territory, a territorial governor pushed to move the capital form Saint Paul to Saint Peter, around the then more populated south of the state. (said governor also happened to own the land that the Saint Peter capital would be built on, so he'd become very rich from this exchange) As the bill was finished being passed in the legislature and was on its way to the governor, one representative took the bill and ran off, hiding away to drink and play cards until the bill expired.
Minnesota capital conflict: "Let's put the capital over 'derr". "No, it'd be better over 'derr donchaknow?" Texas capital conflict: "Eat shit and die!" *loads heavy artillery*
This is something I never even heard about and I live in Texas, thanks for the new knowledge Cody! edit: truth be told I aint been to Austin so that's probably why
We didn't fight a civil war, but up here in Alaska there's been an argument for decades to move the capital to a place not _shoved in the corner of the state where you need at least one airplane flight to get to._ When it was first proposed it didn't pass due to the $3 billion cost but at this point I'm sure that's been paid many times over with all of the airplane flights and ferries going to and from there.
I'm from Texas and remember covering this in our state history classes. I've read the reason Houston wanted to move the capital is because he was an ego maniac and saw himself as the "George Washington of Texas" and thought the capital should reside in a city that bore his name. Ol' Sam's ego was as large as Texas itself.
Yeah, Texas would have a proper capital instead of that hippy infested overpriced traffic clogged dump that should be called Waterloo and be a one horse town. Damn you, Mirabeau Lamar.
I literally just listened to a podcast extensively covering this incident earlier this morning, and now I'm fearing that the walls of reality are sagging a bit
Here's another fun history fact. In 1908 a race around the world using the recently invented automobile started and right from the beginning they met with problems. It began in New York and the drivers assumed an easy ride to San Francisco but the time there were no paved roads outside of large cities, racers kept getting lost because of people intentionally giving them wrong directions, cars kept breaking down or stuck in the mud and when they finally reached the west coast the learned the planned path from San Francisco to Alaska did not exist so their sponsors had to pay to have their cars shipped there. It gets even weirder. They were told during the winter the ocean between Alaska and Russia was completely frozen and they planned to drive across it only to have locals tell them after they got there that the sea never freezes over even during the worst of winters. So they had to take a ship to Japan and then another one to Russia where they tried to drive across the Siberia but because they got there as winter was ending they kept getting stuck in the muddy soil and daily progress was measured in feet instead of miles. Eventually 3 of them made it to Europe (Which had better roads than America at the time) and made their way to the finish line in Paris with relative ease
Do one on the last Reconstruction Governor of Texas, Edmund Davis, getting forced out of office before his term had officially ended by an angry mob and responding with padlocking the door of the governor's office so his enemies had to break the door down.
Only in Texas would an innkeeper just happen to have a cannon ready to be fired at a moments notice
IIRC the cannon was on the main street of the town (Congress Avenue). When she saw what was going on, she ran down the street to where the cannon was and fired it. As for why it was loaded, it had grapeshot loaded to help defend the town from raids by the natives in the region.
The stars at night are big and bright!!!!!
"Steal my towels and pillows, will they?!"
Stay strapped or get your archives clapped.
I believe there's a copypasta that fits this nicely...
*Don't mess with Texas.*
*That means you, Texas.*
Even Texas loses to Texas
Meanwhile Texas:
Damn Texans they ruined Texas
@@nobleknight7472 No liberals refugees are.
@@Connect200
Dude! He was doing a Simpsons reference.
There’s actually a statue in downtown Austin, where I live, of the women next to the cannon not that far from the capital
*cannon with the double n, canon with the single n is as in canon story material
Where? An Austinite of 10yrs and I had no idea!
@@fernpaz9570 On the southbound side of Congress Ave, between 6th and 7th Streets.
Texas gang
Hah saw that just yesterday
"Don't mess with Texas..... unless you're Texas."
What about i summon the angry parts of all the countries in Europe? I think they can stop Texas
Squad
Bavaria!
Sicily!
Marsiglia!
Catalonia!
Scotland!
ASSEMBLEEEEEE
@@Boretheory what?
And even then Texas would rather run than mess with Texas.
The stars at night are big and bright!!!!!
Love Texas from NewYork / State bros 🤜🤛
The Texasiest story that ever Texased.
Texased and redpilled
Ah, finally, something to tell Twitter when asked what privately owned cannons were for back in the days.
You know, you could just say "shooting people" and you'd still be correct.
Actually, this particular cannon was actually publicly owned for the town’s defense against the natives who weren’t too happy they were there. Seize the means of cannon production!
But it wasn't for shooting people, it was an alarm for the town in a time when bells cost more than cannons.
@@paulraines9635 it was for shooting native americans...
@@robertharris6092 yes captain obvious thanks.
Yuri Orlov: Never go to war, especially with yourself.
Texas innkeeper: So then I started blasting...
Texas "Only one to fight me is me!"
I just realised Texas has (technicaly) fought it self twice (this and the civil war)
That’s because Texans are the only one’s with big enough balls to try.
@@emucitizen5892 how did Texas fight itself during the civil war?
Texas*
@@Maxzes_ oh your right. Pardon
You should definitely look up the “County Seat Wars” that happened here in West Virginia after the Civil War. Essentially, there were several counties where the new railroads didn’t go through the old county seats and the railroad companies wanted them to be moved to the new towns that had sprung up around the railroads. In one particular instance in Tucker County, around a thousand people from the railroad town of Parsons invaded the county seat of St George, broke into the court house, stole all of the records and documents, and even the bell from the bell tower, and took it all back home to Parsons. Now Parsons is the county seat, and St George is just a cluster of houses on a back road.
Lmao, that's hilarious
Hold up did the invasion ruin the town of Saint George or it was going to be a backwater town anyway otherwise that kind fuck up of the Parson residents.
I don't know even know if county seats have more power or privileges back then but unless it was an act of out of a pure pride, this was kind of heinous
Texas: so badass that they'll fight Mexico AND themselves at the same time!
Meanwhile France fighting all of Europe whilst in the middle of a revolution: …
@@wietomeiborg1934 that because of one man
@@wietomeiborg1934 very different a country with the capability to create and substain multiple armies vs a territory with a population under 500k fighting against a major regional power with millions of people
@@mauricocruz7405 At the time, the Mexican Empire was a great power.
y'know, before it wasn't
@@bignuts8079 that’s what I’m saying Texas with just a couple hundred thousand people went up against a major regional power but Mexico was never a superpower it got its ass handed to it by the US and almost conquered by France
The capital should be at the beginning of the name, just like any other proper noun. The capital of Texas is T.
I gotta admit, I laughed harder at this then I should have
GImme a T for Texas, gimme a T for Tennessee
@@TheTC Gimme a F, for Mexico
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Most Texan thing imaginable
Everything's bigger in Texas. Steaks, trucks, skies, egos, stomachs, etc.
@@nevergivingup3434 Don't forget guns.
@@joeymcm04 and cannons
@@superdays7933 Cannons fall under the "gun" category.
@@joeymcm04 bigger boom gun
Never knew about this. In an alternative universe Houston could have been the capital
And it would still get flooded because Hurricanes.
@@juanmanuelpenaloza9264 imagine thinking your archives are better underwater than inland near tornados
You mean remained
@@problems3485 Not really near tornadoes. I’ve lived near and in Austin my whole life and we’ve had like two or three in the past twenty five years
@@sawyersprott Maybe they meant the potential plan where Austin is moved even further north? Or maybe they just don’t know much about Texas idk 😤
I actually learned about this while on a tour of Austin. Great video!
I love being from Texas. This was required learning in 7th grade and I loved it. There’s a reason why a lot of us still love Texas even if we’re far from home. God Bless the Lone Star State
Minnesota, too, had a conflict over their capital, although it was bit calmer.
While Minnesota was still a territory, a territorial governor pushed to move the capital form Saint Paul to Saint Peter, around the then more populated south of the state. (said governor also happened to own the land that the Saint Peter capital would be built on, so he'd become very rich from this exchange) As the bill was finished being passed in the legislature and was on its way to the governor, one representative took the bill and ran off, hiding away to drink and play cards until the bill expired.
Minnesota capital conflict: "Let's put the capital over 'derr". "No, it'd be better over 'derr donchaknow?"
Texas capital conflict: "Eat shit and die!" *loads heavy artillery*
@@zlinedavid Oh yah youbetcha
The woman firing the cannon is actually iconic texas imagery now
Texas: I trust no one. Not even myself
“You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas”
This has to be one of the funniest pieces of history I have ever had the pleasure of learning.
This one's pretty good, I think the one where Texas and Oklahoma went to war over a rail bridge is better though.
@@Baconatorz
Unexpected.
I CAN'T BELIVE TEACHER'S ARN'T TALKING ABOUT IMPORANT STUFF LIKE THIS!
Ours did in Texas History class and it was glorious
its kinda useless info lmao
except we learn this in texas history though (unless you don't live in texas that makes sense that you wouldn't learn abou this)
mine did but that is because i live in texas
I learned about it because I live in Texas and our first year of history is Texan History.
Love the Mexican cavalry model for this one
Here is an image showing how the uniform looked:
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This is something I never even heard about and I live in Texas, thanks for the new knowledge Cody!
edit: truth be told I aint been to Austin so that's probably why
Austin is a weird place nowadays so it makes sense why we don't talk about it.
1800's Motel 6: We'll keep the cannon on for you.
You can always tell a Texan, though you can't tell em much.
Funny thing I remember learning about this in my 7th grade Texas history class.
Governor: More the state archives we can protect them better back east.
Austin: Ha Gayyyy!
Well, Sam Houston was President not Governor since Texas was independent at this time.
i fucking love you and your videos man!
I'm from Texas, and we even have a year of Texas History class in middle school, but I've never heard of this debacle before.
I had no idea this ever happened. What an American moment
As a Texan and a budding historian that specializes in Texas revolution and the Alamo, this is 100% to our knowledge at my job at the Alamo. 😂
We didn't fight a civil war, but up here in Alaska there's been an argument for decades to move the capital to a place not _shoved in the corner of the state where you need at least one airplane flight to get to._ When it was first proposed it didn't pass due to the $3 billion cost but at this point I'm sure that's been paid many times over with all of the airplane flights and ferries going to and from there.
In Texas this is now called the archives wars
as an austiner i support this message
I’m Texan and I approve this message.
Never knew about this, despite living in Texas all my life.
Dude, if you thought that was cool, look up the 442nd and Battle of the Lost Battalion.
@@juanmanuelpenaloza9264 I’ll be sure too. Thx
@@themediabros dude it’s my favorite war
Also the battle of the lost battalion has a movie and its incredible
This reminds me that I want a "what if mexico won the Mexican american war?"
Same
We have a big statue of Angelina Eberly (The innkeeper) near the capital. :)
Learn something new everyday. Appreciated bruv.
Love that you could boil this story down to a short! Respect!
You should do what if Andrew Jackson was never president.
natives would be happy
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 Yes
As someone from Jacksonville double yes.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough is Jacksonville named after Andrew Jackson?
As someone from Tennessee I would be sad
Man they really don’t make innkeepers like they used to 😩
I'm from Texas and remember covering this in our state history classes. I've read the reason Houston wanted to move the capital is because he was an ego maniac and saw himself as the "George Washington of Texas" and thought the capital should reside in a city that bore his name. Ol' Sam's ego was as large as Texas itself.
A view of Houston that is confirmed by his actions at Lamar's inauguration.
Definitely no lie
that actually worked in Oklahoma, went from Guthrie to Oklahoma City
I remember learning about this and being so confused. This is so much simpler than they thought it to us.
Thanks for the video, don’t like short that much but this was very cool!
Tell them about the Railroad wars like the Rio Grande in southern Colorado
Brilliant! 🌟✨ We've been exploring these shadows too. 🌒🔦
Hurray he's back.
Would big bird turn into fried chicken if he was on board and it still exploded?
Not even Texes messes with Texas.
When are you going to make a nother Fan Alternate Countries
We didn't have a pandemic when you made those videos, just saying. Get on it cody
you should do a video about Santa Anna, the amount of times he reapeatedly gets exiled and somehow ends up back in power is honestly hilarious.
Lol so some random innkeeper lady had access to a full on Canon? Man. The 2A was alive and well back then.
Imagine if Hank Hill ancestor fought in this conflict
Yeah, Texas would have a proper capital instead of that hippy infested overpriced traffic clogged dump that should be called Waterloo and be a one horse town. Damn you, Mirabeau Lamar.
I sell firewood and firewood accessories.
Dangmantalkinboutwheretoputthatdangolcapitolatman…..
As a Texan I thought I knew most of the big parts of state history, but I knew nothing about this.
Pretty cool!
I literally just listened to a podcast extensively covering this incident earlier this morning, and now I'm fearing that the walls of reality are sagging a bit
"Reality can be whatever i want it to be!"-Thanos
I think it was Thanos who said that, but I don't know, oh well.
The human subject is beginning to show signs of being self aware. Initiating immediate termination protocol.
Florida has been having trouble deciding should we move our capital... it's been 200 years and we are still thinking about it.
I love the fact that cody is doing this kind of shorts because they are actually really funny and interesting at the same time
Happy day to see this video. I passed bybit hours ago and couldnt remember the video! But knew i was so interigued.
As an archivist that is really something!
My thoughts would be I Love my Texas even when My Texas doesn’t love me 😌
I want more in this in my recommended!
Learned this in 7th grade Texas history class. But then again we’re the only state to have a set class for just our own history.
I've been asking for years and now with this maybe. So what if the Contras won the contra war and how would that have of effected the cold war
Nicely done
Please keep making more.
Happy to find your channel. Lots of good videos in one place. You've got a fan!
(Sun 14 Nov 2021 22h06)
YESS PLEASE DO MORE SHORTS LIKE THIS
I remember learning about this in middle school
As an innkeeper in Texas, I can confirm we keep cannons on the ready just in case this ever happens again.
That explains why all the cities don’t like Austin.
I went to school in Texas & never learned this.
Here's another fun history fact. In 1908 a race around the world using the recently invented automobile started and right from the beginning they met with problems. It began in New York and the drivers assumed an easy ride to San Francisco but the time there were no paved roads outside of large cities, racers kept getting lost because of people intentionally giving them wrong directions, cars kept breaking down or stuck in the mud and when they finally reached the west coast the learned the planned path from San Francisco to Alaska did not exist so their sponsors had to pay to have their cars shipped there. It gets even weirder. They were told during the winter the ocean between Alaska and Russia was completely frozen and they planned to drive across it only to have locals tell them after they got there that the sea never freezes over even during the worst of winters. So they had to take a ship to Japan and then another one to Russia where they tried to drive across the Siberia but because they got there as winter was ending they kept getting stuck in the muddy soil and daily progress was measured in feet instead of miles. Eventually 3 of them made it to Europe (Which had better roads than America at the time) and made their way to the finish line in Paris with relative ease
Taiwan is a country 🇹🇼
Sounds good
Well it’s the republican KMT Chinese Government in exile on the island of Taiwan, but yes,
Sounds good
Sounds good
China is just West Taiwan
Google: *ANGRY NOISES*
Yes, our Archive War. No big deal, really
The fun thing about this I learned it in class and it happened like two streets away
The most Texas story I've ever heard!
The moment when Austin became more Texas than Texas.
I'm from Austin and I didn't know this...
Honestly everyone should be taught texas history, it's a bop.
And our state motto is “friendship”
Do one on the last Reconstruction Governor of Texas, Edmund Davis, getting forced out of office before his term had officially ended by an angry mob and responding with padlocking the door of the governor's office so his enemies had to break the door down.
Just moved to Austin, great timing!
There's a statue in downtown Austin of Angelina Eberly firing a cannon.
My county did that once. I live in Ohio. It was a very similar course of events but also different.
This reminds me of the episode of the Office when Jim tricks Dwight into beating himself up
Wouldn’t it make more sense to have your capital closer to the ocean? Where all the trade is?
Next video: What if someone got hurt in the Texas Archive War?
we learned this in history class
can you make it horizontal because phone users can flip their phones but us computer users can't do the same
Thanks for covering this! Even in Texas, it seems like few people know about this.
Wow the most harmless war in history.
Holy shit. I had to check if this was real...
i think these shorts could be perfect for scrapped vid ideas
These new shorts are pretty good
I'm visiting Texas in 2 weeks. It seems interesting
Where you going in the state and how long do you plan on staying here?
Though I agree capital of Texas should be Houston. Austin is now pretty much part of California.
You should do one on if the Yugoslavian Wars of the 90s never happened!
So another state fought over a dumb reason, thought Michigan was the dumbest reason
Well if it’s important to retain economic or political power, I can see why the cause wouldn’t be seen as dumb to some people.