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In reply to nortex97 • 10:02a, 5/24/26
I had a thread on that when it happened, some interesting stories and anecdotes..

https://texags.com/forums/49/topics/3115877
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In reply to oragator • 5:07a, 5/26/26
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That's great, had forgotten about that one. Thx.

Unrelated:

I don't think a similar gracious personal reconciliation is likely for many of our political rivals today.
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12:37p, 5/28/26
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The Battle of Trafalgar caused the Spanish-American War and Spain was a loser of both events.

After Nelson defeated the combined French-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar, France's ability to get cane sugar from its Caribbean colonies was greatly diminished. Napoleon had to find another way to get sugar and French agricultural scientists worked on the problem for the remainder of Napoleon's reign. By the Battle of Waterloo, scientists were extracting sugar from beets as efficiently as from sugarcane. As a result, beet-sugar grew in popularity in Europe and by the end of the nineteenth century it was more economic to make sugar from beets than cane. This caused a problem for places like Cuba whose economy relied heavily on cane sugar. On top of draconian Spanish colonial practices, the worldwide depression on cane sugar led to the Cuban revolution, which led to US intervention in Cuba after the USS Maine exploded.
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1:14p, 5/28/26
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In the Jesuit cemetery in Grand Couteau, Louisiana the son of William T. Sherman and the great-nephew of the Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens are buried side by side. One would think it was a gesture toward Civil War reconciliation between the north and the south. But it wasn't that, just an historical irony. Father Sherman died on April 29, 1933 and was buried in the Jesuit cemetery. Three days later Father John Salter, Stephen's great-nephew, died and as was the Jesuit custom in the cemetery, Salter was given the next plot, next to Father Sherman.
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