175th Anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo!

[SlowwHand]

Al, WTG, buddy. You're still an idiot, and on a whole new topic.

[Al B. Sure!]

Al, WTG, buddy. You're still an idiot, and on a whole new topic.

Texans were not Americans. They left America to go settle that cheap cheap land that Mexico was offering up. They became Mexicans. Then Mexico said slavery is wrong but the Texans were a bunch of racist slave-owners who revolted because 'Mexicans took our slaves!'. Then 175 years later, it's 'Mexicans took our jobs!'

[SlowwHand]

You're so stupid it hurts. The only thing that you got correct was about not being Americans. We accepted overtures from America later.

[Al B. Sure!]

You're so stupid it hurts. The only thing that you got correct was about not being Americans. We accepted overtures from America later.

The Texans revolted because they wanted to keep their slaves. Same reason the Confederacy revolted 25 years later. Slavery.

[Docfeelgood]

The Texans revolted because they wanted to keep their slaves. Same reason the Confederacy revolted 25 years later. Slavery.

NOT TRUE!
Santa Anna denounced the administration of Vice-President Farias, and forced him and his main supporters to flee to the United States. He formed a new Catholic, centralist, conservative government which replaced the 1824 constitution with the new constitutional document, entitled "The Seven Laws" (Constitution of 1836). Santa Anna dissolved the Congress and began the centralization of power. The regime became a centralized dictatorship backed by the military. Several states openly rebelled against the changes.
Texans first rebelled when Santa Anna in 1832 sent troops into Texas to force martial law (Only the Texans defeated Santa Anna and retained their independence).

[Whoha]

Did you guys steal any other states from Mexico?

No we got ours from the actual locals fair and square.

[Docfeelgood]

Before Mexico owned Texas it belonged to Spain: in 1519 - 1821. Then France: in 1685 - 1690.

You guys really should get a Texas history book. IMHO, Texas has the most interesting history of all the 57 states.

[Al B. Sure!]

NOT TRUE!
Santa Anna denounced the administration of Vice-President Farias, and forced him and his main supporters to flee to the United States. He formed a new Catholic, centralist, conservative government which replaced the 1824 constitution with the new constitutional document, entitled "The Seven Laws" (Constitution of 1836). Santa Anna dissolved the Congress and began the centralization of power. The regime became a centralized dictatorship backed by the military. Several states openly rebelled against the changes.
Texans first rebelled when Santa Anna in 1832 sent troops into Texas to force martial law (Only the Texans defeated Santa Anna and retained their independence).

And outlawed slavery

[Docfeelgood]

And outlawed slavery

No still, there were no slaves because under Mexico law it was forbidden.

Sorry, your grasping for straws.

[dannubis]

The battle of what ?

[Al B. Sure!]

No still, there were no slaves because under Mexico law it was forbidden.

Sorry, your grasping for straws.

Huh?

Doc, it is well-known that the Texans had slaves.

The Mexican-born settlers in Tejas were soon vastly outnumbered by people born in the United States. To address this situation, President Anastasio Bustamante implemented several measures on April 6, 1830. Chief among these was a prohibition against further immigration to Tejas from the United States, although American citizens would be allowed to settle in other parts of Mexico. Furthermore, the property tax law, intended to exempt immigrants from paying taxes for ten years, was rescinded, and tariffs were increased on goods shipped from the United States. Bustamante also ordered all Tejas settlers to comply with the federal prohibition against slavery or face military intervention.[6] These measures did not have the intended effect. Settlers simply circumvented or ignored the laws. By 1834, it was estimated that over 30,000 Anglos lived in Coahuila y Tejas,[7] compared to only 7,800 Mexican-born citizens.[8] By 1836, there were approximately 5,000 slaves in Texas.[9]

[Al B. Sure!]

The battle of what ?

[Docfeelgood]

The Texans revolted because they wanted to keep their slaves. Same reason the Confederacy revolted 25 years later. Slavery.

I thought that was a myth. I did not believe that people actually think that the American Civil War was fought over slavery.

[Al B. Sure!]

I thought that was a myth. I did not believe that people actually think that the American Civil War was fought over slavery.

Yup, same with Sloww. It was the War of Northern Aggression to yall.

We've been there, done that with Sloww and it gets nowhere. You Southerners are brain-washed by historical revisionism.

[Docfeelgood]

Huh?

Doc, it is well-known that the Texans had slaves.

Although the Spanish colonists had held some slaves, they did not succeed in creating a sustainable agricultural economy in the entirety of New Spain, including Texas, Mexico, Central America, and other former Spanish territories in the American Southwest.The governors feared the growth in the Anglo-American population in Texas, and for various reasons, by the early 19th century, they and their superiors in Mexico City disapproved of expanding slavery.
In 1829 the Guerrero decree conditionally abolished slavery throughout Mexican territories. After the Texas Revolution ended, European-Americans greatly increased the enslaved population in the Republic, and later the State of Texas as they encouraged settlement and developed more acres under cultivation in cotton and other commodities.