Battle? HAH!!! The "Battle" of wounded knee was no battle at all it was a massacre and part of a larger genocide
Sam Houston was a great political figure. He got Texas independence on the day of the Battle of San Jacinto. He was Governor of both Tennessee and Texas. He was a U.S. Senator and a U.S. Congressmen. He was a frontiersmen, statesmen, great orator, and accomplished military man. He is one of the founding fathers of Texas and a great Indian Rights Supporter.
FYI: He started the saying “Remember the Alamo!.
In 1918 H1N1 Or "The Spanish Flu" emerged and was extremely contagious. It was a Novel Virus just as SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) is. Within months H1N1 spread to almost every country on the planet and was considered a Pandemic. The reason it was called "The Spanish Flu" is because Spain was the only country to report this in their news media. similar to what china tried to do by not reporting about the virus at first. The reason the 1918 was so deadly was because it emerged right as World War 1 ended and soldiers where moving all across the planet to return from the war to their home country which made the virus spread like wildfire and now with SARS-CoV-2 millions of people travel to the other side of the planet within hours daily which made it spread so fast.
In reference, <span>The Encyclopædia Britannica defines "political machine" as, "in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state".</span>
<span>SO: It's purpose primarily serves to gain and maintain political and administrative control of city/county/state, none the less the population.</span>
