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To: laotzu

Maybe she’s unaware that the defenders of the Alamo were fighting as Mexicans to restore the Mexican constitution of 1824, which the government of Antonio López de Santa Anna had thrown out in 1835. After all, the battle began before Texas declared its independence.


29 posted on 05/13/2010 6:54:38 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

And further, a few years later, General Winfield Scott and his Aide de Camp Captain Robert E Lee successfully captured Mexico City after a campaign that defeated Mexico’s finest from Yucatan inland to the Halls O Montezuma.

President James K Polk a great Tennessean, determined Mexico was not worth having and abandoned his win after deposing Santa Anna for the second time.


56 posted on 05/13/2010 7:10:45 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: Fiji Hill
Maybe she’s unaware that the defenders of the Alamo were fighting as Mexicans to restore the Mexican constitution of 1824

Not really. They spun it this way for a while, but it was a very open secret that the Anglo settlers pretty much all wanted to eventually be annexed by the US.

83 posted on 05/13/2010 7:51:27 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (When buying and selling are legislated, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Texas was not the only state in Mexico to revolt, after Santa Anna’s coup. It was just the only state that won.

Mexico would have been far better off if the other rebelling states had won as well. And better still had Santa Anna’s junta been driven from power and the Mexican Constitution restored.


135 posted on 05/13/2010 8:02:22 PM PDT by jdege
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