u/Slight_Target1878

I know this subreddit is strictly USSR comments, but perhaps it helps for those in the US to also admit to blind idolatry of political and religious of figures in the US that generated a siege mentality patriotism. And under such a frame of mind, we often do not see the major faults in the US that is leading to its current downfall similar to the USSR.

In that regard, after The Wall fell down in 1991, and former allied nations there appeared to want separation from the USSR, which Soviet leaders, like Leo, have the best views on a true coalition built out of mutual respect and prosperity for the future economic and cultural growth in that region?

Rolling in the tanks or spreading out the AI-driven drones to quell unrest seems to be having minor setbacks as we head into the 22nd Century. It is the same for the US.

I was born in West Texas and my Pa’paw and Dad (aka the Ding-Dong-Daddy-from-Dumas, …I heard the song all the damn time on his 8-track) told me that our Progenitor, Aaron Cherry, Sr. was involved in both Texas revolutionary wars.  We are apparently from the line of John Cherry who was the older brother of Aaron Cherry, Jr.  After Aaron, Sr. lost the plantation in Liberty County, my ancestor went West.

Source:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12947679/aaron-cherry

I never thought much of it, but then my Dad passed and left me a heap of genealogy records.  Some of the records showed Aaron Sr. built a Baptist church with Sam Houston.  Others claimed that John and Aaron Jr. were members of the Coushatta tribe and acted as translators as Lieutenants in Houston’s Texas Revolutionary Army.   https://www.texassar.org/pdf/AmRevSoldiersBuriedInTx.pdf ;

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/cherry/390/

Me’maw died before I was born, but she left my Dad a bunch of notes claiming Aaron Sr. Aaron Sr. wanted to lead Spanish armies into the swamp area of his property then rain down artillery from the overlook above the swamp.   She wrote a bunch of stuff, but unlike the records above there are no cites.  My Pa’paw and Dad had told me this stuff too, but it’s vague because I was young when Pa’paw passed as well.

Question:  Anyone know of books or source material on the Fredonian?  Any thoughts on why it was even mentioned as the first revolutionary war?

Comment:  From what I can tell, Empresario Haden Edwards seemed more like a “Boss Hog” than a revolutionary figure. Wikipedia contributors. (2025, December 30). Fredonian Rebellion. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:55, April 24, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fredonian_Rebellion&oldid=1330344772

Also, I can post my Me’maw’s notes on Fredonia somewhere for a historian to look at, but I will caution she was very “anti-everyone but white, Hispanic, and Indian Texas who were Baptists” in her writings.  She was very “High Chapparal” as neighbors go.   Her notes are interesting but, in a disturbing, “that’s really how they thought back then way”.