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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

Posted on 06/10/2021 6:53:14 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
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To: al_c

John Wayne wasn’t at the Alamo?


41 posted on 06/10/2021 7:21:25 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I’m sure he hasn’t.


42 posted on 06/10/2021 7:21:55 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Chode

100% incorrect.


43 posted on 06/10/2021 7:25:14 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: MHGinTN

“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


44 posted on 06/10/2021 7:25:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy............. Nightbirde)
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To: Chode

100% incorrect.


45 posted on 06/10/2021 7:26:33 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: BusterDog
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.

46 posted on 06/10/2021 7:27:36 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: al_c

Texas rules, Mexico drools.

Deport every last illegal alien no matter their circumstances.


47 posted on 06/10/2021 7:32:21 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ConservativeInPA
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.

48 posted on 06/10/2021 7:34:01 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: al_c

49 posted on 06/10/2021 7:35:00 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: al_c

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


50 posted on 06/10/2021 7:37:46 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: al_c

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.


51 posted on 06/10/2021 7:38:23 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: al_c

https://twitter.com/BryanBurrough


52 posted on 06/10/2021 7:42:24 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
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.

53 posted on 06/10/2021 7:44:11 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: al_c

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


54 posted on 06/10/2021 7:45:56 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


55 posted on 06/10/2021 7:47:12 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Savage Rider

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


56 posted on 06/10/2021 7:48:48 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: al_c

>>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?


57 posted on 06/10/2021 7:49:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: al_c

ozzy osbourne didn’t pee on it?...


58 posted on 06/10/2021 7:51:40 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: MHGinTN

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


59 posted on 06/10/2021 7:53:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Bryan probably looks more favorably upon the revolution in Mexico


60 posted on 06/10/2021 7:55:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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