Editing Battle of San Jacinto (section)

==Legacy==
The [[San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site]] was designated a [[List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas|National Historic Landmark]] in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|title=San Jacinto Battlefield|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=623&ResourceType=Site|website=National Historic Landmarks|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=July 7, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226023709/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=623&ResourceType=Site|archive-date=February 26, 2013}}</ref> The site includes the {{convert|570|ft|m|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite web|title=How Tall is it?|url=http://www.nps.gov/jeff/planyourvisit/arch-height.htm|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=July 7, 2015}}</ref> [[San Jacinto Monument]], which was erected by the [[Public Works Administration]]. Authorized April 21, 1936, and dedicated April 21, 1939, the monument cost $1.5&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|1.5|1939}} million in {{Inflation-year|US}}).<ref>Buisseret, Francaviglia, Graves, Saxon (2009), p. 75</ref><ref>Moore (2004), p. 426.</ref> The site hosts a [[San Jacinto Day]] festival and battle re-enactment each year in April.<ref>{{cite web|title=San Jacinto Monument|url=http://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/san-jacinto-battleground/programs-events/park_programs|publisher=Texas Parks & Wildlife Department|access-date=July 7, 2015}}</ref>

Both the [[Texas Navy]] and the [[United States Navy]] have commissioned ships named after the Battle of San Jacinto: the {{ship|Texan schooner|San Jacinto}} and three ships named {{USS|San Jacinto}}. There has been one civilian passenger ship named SS ''San Jacinto''.

* Texas Navy schooner [[Texan schooner San Jacinto|''San Jacinto'']] was commissioned in 1839 and decommissioned in 1840 after she was wrecked at [[Cayos Arcas]].<ref>{{cite web|title=San Jacinto|url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qts04|website=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=July 8, 2015}}</ref>
* The first {{USS|San Jacinto|1850|6}} was a [[Steam frigate|screw frigate]] launched by the United States Navy in 1850. She was in service with the [[Africa Squadron]] in 1860 when she captured the slave ship ''Storm King''. The frigate was in service for most of the [[American Civil War]] until she wrecked in the Bahamas in 1865.<ref>Silverstone (2006), p. 15</ref>
* {{SS|San Jacinto|1903|6}} was a United States civilian passenger ship built in 1903 by the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works for the New York and Texas Steamship Company.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Mallory Line Twin-Screw Passenger and Freight Steamship San Jacinto|journal=Marine Engineering|date=November 1903|volume=VIII|pages=547–554|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4NJLAAAAYAAJ&q=1903+passenger+ship+%22san+jacinto%22&pg=PA547|publisher=Marine Engineering Incorporated}}</ref> The U.S. Navy considered acquiring the civilian passenger-cargo ship for use during World War I as USS ''San Jacinto'' (ID-1531) but never acquired or commissioned her. On April 21, 1942, the ship was sunk by a German [[U-boat]].<ref>Hampton Roads Naval Historical Foundation (2014), p. 71</ref>
* The second {{USS|San Jacinto|CVL-30|6}} was a United States Navy {{Sclass|Independence|aircraft carrier|0}} World War II [[light aircraft carrier]] commissioned in December 1943 and decommissioned in 1947.<ref>Green (2015), pp. 56, 107</ref>
*The third {{USS|San Jacinto|CG-56|6}} is a decommissioned [[Cruiser|guided missile cruiser]] commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1988 and decommissioned in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|title=USS ''San Jacinto''|url=http://www.sanjacinto.navy.mil/|publisher=United States Navy|access-date=July 8, 2015|archive-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819192707/http://www.sanjacinto.navy.mil/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

When the veteran battleship {{USS|Texas|BB-35|6}} was decommissioned in 1948 and made into a [[museum ship]], it was decided to give her a permanent anchorage near the San Jacinto Monument. Her arrival from Baltimore, where she was decommissioned, was timed for April 21, 1948—the 112th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto.

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Image:San Jacinto Monument.jpg|The San Jacinto Monument
Image:San Jacinto Liberty Battle Flag, currently displayed in the Texas House of Representatives.jpg|San Jacinto Battle Flag in the Texas House of Representatives
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