We've Been Telling the Alamo Story Wrong for Nearly 200 Years. Now It's Time to Correct the Record

Time ^ | June 9, 2021 | Bryan Burrough

[al_c]

Imagine if the U.S. were to open interior Alaska for colonization and, for whatever reason, thousands of Canadian settlers poured in, establishing their own towns, hockey rinks and Tim Hortons stores. When the U.S. insists they follow American laws and pay American taxes, they refuse. When the government tries to collect taxes, they shoot and kill American soldiers. When law enforcement goes after the killers, the colonists, backed by Canadian financing and mercenaries, take up arms in open revolt.

[Phlap]

John Wayne wasn’t at the Alamo?

[al_c]

I’m sure he hasn’t.

[jpsb]

100% incorrect.

[Red Badger]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[jpsb]

100% incorrect.

[ClearCase_guy]

The thrust of it is that we need to teach that Santa Anna’s primary purposes in attacking the Alamo was to recapture lands illegally taken from Mexico and to free slaves.

Painting Santa Anna as a Good Guy is amusing. Because the more I learn about the Goliad Massacre, the less I care for him.

[Rurudyne]

Texas rules, Mexico drools.

Deport every last illegal alien no matter their circumstances.

[semimojo]

I would trust what was written about the Alamo a century or more ago.

Written by whom? Do you read Spanish?

I think that’s the author’s point.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

[Lurkinanloomin]

Led by George P. Bush, Mexican national, no doubt.

[Savage Rider]

I’m not going to read this. Did the article mention all the abuses the dictator Santa Ana was heaping on the people of Mexico? It wasn’t only Anglos and recent settlers who fought for independence. There were plenty of long time residents, blacks, native tribes, Spanish, French, who entered the fight. The Texicans were a diverse group.

[a fool in paradise]

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[AndyJackson]

Yes, and Mexico had a very good constitution adopted in 1824 guaranteeing federalism and democratic elections. They then proceeded to shred it like the Democrats are doing today.

It would be like a lot of modern day Texas rebelling against the feral Biden gubmint because they joined a federation of states, the overweening government of which has assumed powers bearing no relationship to the Constitution under which Texas agreed to join the union.

[NicoDon]

its on Time \ Yahoo, so no one should really care.

[a fool in paradise]

ping

[AndyJackson]

Did the article mention at all that Santa Anna was horribly corrupt.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Since then, scholars such as Randolph Campbell and Andrew Torget have demonstrated that slavery was the single issue that regularly drove a wedge between early Mexican governments—dedicated abolitionists all—and their American colonists in Texas

so the Tejanos who died at the Alamo and elsewhere were fighting to uphold slavery? How many slaves did they own?

[heavy metal]

ozzy osbourne didn’t pee on it?...

[a fool in paradise]

George P. Bush has done what he could to re-cast the history of the Alamo in recent years as well.

[a fool in paradise]

Bryan probably looks more favorably upon the revolution in Mexico