[Sans-Culotte]

I've been hearing this revisionist BS for years. The one part I agree with is the notion that the defenders knowingly gave their lives to buy more time for Houston. They had no way to know if Houston was successful at raising an army, and Houston's victory at San Jacinto was more of a fluke than a planned thing.

The author dismisses certain things out of hand, like the "Travis line" story. It may not have happened, but maybe it did. And his analogy of Canadians revolting in Alaska would make more sense if it involved a new regime taking over and abrogating the previous constitution, which Santa Anna did.

[lepton]

And his analogy of Canadians revolting in Alaska would make more sense if it involved a new regime taking over and abrogating the previous constitution, which Santa Anna did.

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And if the US was even less of a country at the time than the original US colonies.

[lepton]

And his analogy of Canadians revolting in Alaska would make more sense if it involved a new regime taking over and abrogating the previous constitution, which Santa Anna did.

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And if the US was even less of a country at the time than the original US colonies were in the mid 1700s.