i love the history of texas i thought it had a lot of parrallels to the american revolution mostly because of the demegauge (sp) factor a few powerful people overruled the masses
also the annexation only happened when texas tried to become a eurpean colony to piss america off
also the mexican american war happened because of a boundry dispute we thought the boundry was the rio grande and they thought it was somthing like the nachez i think, we put troops on the rio and mexico thought we were invading them and when they attacked we told the people that we were attacked unprovoked then we trounced all over them i don't think we have ever actually been affraid of mexico
funny how this stuff works
nice "essay" by the way
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