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THE SEARCH FOR THE TWIN SISTERS 1001 LOST TREASURES SERIES
In 1836, at the Battle of San Jacinto in Texas, a pair a 6 pounder cannons called "The Twin Sisters" provided the opening shots that won the Battle and directly led to the surrender of the Mexican forces under General Santa Anna, giving Texas their freedom to form a republic. According to most historians, the cannons were seen stacked with other field pieces at a railroad depot in Galveston at the end of the war, and a handful of young confederate soldiers, not wanting to see these historic cannons to get into federal hands, took them apart and buried the brass cannons minus their wooden…
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