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Thread #79270   Message #1434549
Posted By: Les from Hull
14-Mar-05 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins: General Taylor - who was he?
Subject: RE: Origins: General Taylor
The Battle of Monterrey (Sept. 21-23, 1846)

Most of the shanty verses give the victory to Santa Ana, which is just plain wrong. It's closely related to 'Stormalong' and gets similar verses (and probably got mixed up teh). Hugill gives it as a halyard shanty also used for capstan and pump.