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A book came out recently about this historical clash that occurred a couple centuries ago that has been the subject of several movies.

A number of the “facts” about this event were debunked and a number of truths often left out of the official narrative were revealed..

This led to some outcry and the forced cancellation of a promotional event in the area where the historical clash happened.

One thing though that was left out of the book is a lot of the scandalous personal details about a figure who played a key role. This individual has had one of America’s largest cities named after him and is much celebrated in history.

However, letters from his first wife whom he was only married to for a couple months before she ran back to her family shows that he was a cross dresser who liked to wear her petticoats and who sometimes liked to have sex with male farm staff.

He also consumed a lot of this drug which was popular in those days, so much so that a spy a rival planted on his staff said he was often completely out of his mind due to his overconsumption of this substance.

Sam Houston
Samuel Houston was an American general and statesman who played an important role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate

Book: Forget the Alamo

On April 11, 1829, Sam Houston and his bride of eleven weeks, Eliza Allen, abruptly ended their marriage. Neither would speak publicly of the cause for the rest of their lives. Eliza returned to her parents’ home in Sumner County. Sam fled to Arkansas territory to live among the Cherokee, after resigning as governor of Tennessee. – Source

7 Things You May Not Know About Sam Houston

1. He attacked a congressman walking down Pennsylvania Avenue with a cane.

2. Houston was the only American elected governor of two different states.

3. He became a member of the Cherokee Nation.
After running away from his family as a teenager, Houston lived for nearly three years with the Cherokee tribe in eastern Tennessee. … There, the tribe formally adopted him, and he married a Cherokee woman, Tiana Rogers, in a tribal ceremony.

4. Houston defeated the Mexican army in just 18 minutes.

5. Houston was the first elected president of the Republic of Texas.

6. The city named in his honor was once the capital of Texas.

7. Houston opposed the secession of Texas to the Confederacy. – Source

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