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How True. Have you ever asked a Mexican what they think of Spainards? Oh while I'm at it: "...The Mexican freedom struggle took eleven years before Spain would concede defeat and release its stranglehold. Within that same year, 1821, Agustin de Iturbide, a Spanish general turned rebel and a hero of the revolution, became emperor of the new nation. Only his regime was too extravagant for some tastes and in no time, a revolt led by General Antonio Miguel de Lopez de Santa Anna Perez de Lebron, better known as simply Santa Anna, brought about Iturbide’s downfall and established the declaration for a Mexican republic. Under Iturbide, however, American colonists were allowed to settle in Texas. About the only condition to owning land was that all immigrant land owners had to be Catholic, an easy enough problem to overcome for non-Catholics and, once accomplished, easy to forget. William Travis, for instance, became Catholic to purchase land, but remained a staunch Methodist until the day he died. Unfortunately, the fledgling Republic of Mexico was born bankrupt and ill-prepared for self-government. In fact, during its first fifteen years of independence, it had thirteen presidents. All of them struggled for power, shifting between the liberal-leaning Federalists and the dictator-styled Centralists. The seeds of conflict continued to grow. The first president was a Federalist, General Guadalupe Victoria, a hero of the revolution who had changed his name from Miguel Felix Hernandez to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, for his victory. It was he who established the liberal Constitution of 1824 which so infuriated Santa Anna and which would lead to the Battle of the Alamo twelve years later. It was also during this turmoil period for control of Mexico’s presidency that the northern territory of Texas was mostly neglected. When Mexico redefined its territories in 1824, Texas was the only separate territory to lose its independence. It was joined to Coahuila, and the capital moved from San Antonio to Saltillo. Along with the change went the transfer of the State Archives of Texas containing deeds and land grants of all settlers, native-born and naturalized. Armed citizens gathered in protest. In September 1835, they petitioned for statehood separate from Coahuila. They wrote out their needs and their complaints in The Declaration of Causes. This document was designed to convince the Federalists that the Texans desired only to preserve the Mexican Constitution of 1824, a constitution which guaranteed the rights of everyone living on Mexican soil. But by this time, Santa Anna was in power, having seized control in 1833, and he advocated the removal of all foreigners from Mexican soil. His answer was to send his crack troops commanded by his brother-in-law, General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to San Antonio to disarm the Texans." From theoutlaws.com Seems to me we took what was rightfully given to us in the first place.