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The capitol also is filled with groovy historical pieces, but none quite as cool as this...the battle flag carried at the Battle of San Jacinto, the final battle in the war of Texas independence, the battle at which Santa Ana surrendered to Sam Houston. Sorry about the picture quality. The flag hangs behind the podium of the Texas Speaker of the House's podium, and the House Chambers are not terribly well lighted, plus, I shot it with a zoom at about fifty feet distance. Still, how cool is this as artifacts go? They also have the only known oil painting of Stephen Austin hanging in there. In fact, it is the only known rendering of the man at all that was done contemporaneously, and all other representations of him are based on that painting.