[Sca-cooks] Theft of reliquaries and wars

[Terry Decker]

The first one is the attempted theft of the Alamo flag for the First Company 
of Texas Volunteers from New Orleans (the New Orleans Greys) from the Museum 
of Foreign Interventions in Mexico City in 1998 (during the governorship of 
one G. W. Bush).  There is an argument as to whether the formal Texas flag 
at the Alamo was the Mexican Constitutional Flag of 1824 or the Lone Star 
Flag as neither has been recovered nor is there any decisive statement in 
the writings from the Alamo.

Cammerone (Mexico, 30 April 1863) IS La Belle Legion.  The arm belonged to 
the officer commanding the French unit (can't remember his name off the top 
of my head).  He was killed early in the fight against, if memory serves, 
and command fell to the senior sergeant who used the officer's arm to rally 
his men.  The French held on until they ran out of ammunition, then fixed 
bayonets and charged a superior force.  All were killed.

There are some historians who say that it was not a massacre, that there 
were survivors and they were permitted to retain theoir weapons, march to 
the sea and were paroled to France.  Whatever the truth, Cammerone Day is 
one of the FFL's greatest celebrations and it is commemorated in a mural 
before which all Legionnaires enlist.

Bear


>A relic riddle with no food significant.  There are two recent relics from
> the Texas/Mexico area which became bones of contention.  Both resulted 
> from
> last stands against Mexican forces.  A captured flag from the Texas war of
> independence and a French wooden arm.   Can any name where, when and in 
> the
> last case whose arm?
>
> Daniel