BTW, for those of you familiar with the amateur Scottish historian from the auld country, Stuart Reid, Dr. James Grant was his ancestor. Reid details Grant's unusual part in the war for independence in his 2007 book, The Secret War for Texas. Reid is a co-member of our Alamo Society and has come to San Antonio and Texas quite a bit to research his book, arrange publishing, tour the state for kicks and speak at our annual AS symposiums. He never laughs or smiles at jokes, but perceives it with serious intent as a challenge to top you with a dryer one.