T Monahan
Supportive Member
Additional tours and fun was had by those on hand.
Post ARCS rug stuff - Remember the Alamo with those that stayed an extra day!
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Papa John
Lifetime Supportive Member
Tom-- At the Alamo tour do the tour guides tell the truth that the battle of the Alamo was a "Civil War" between Mexicans and Former US citizens who migrated to Mexico and became Mexicans; or do they
paint the incorrect narrative that it was a war between Mexico and USA?
paint the incorrect narrative that it was a war between Mexico and USA?
Larry Cobb
Member
That patriotic group of independents . . .
should be able to hold the mission.
should be able to hold the mission.
Papa John
Lifetime Supportive Member
They gave up their US citizenship to become homesteaders for the Mexican government. The Mexican government gave them the land in exchange for populating and improving it for the Mexican Government as Mexican citizens.
Lee Stockwell
FOJL
One of my wife's relatives went down there and died. I'm sure he didn't relinquish his US citizenship
Larry Cobb
Member
The Mexican government was losing population:
"The Texas population was only 3000 in 1810. Texas’ population had actually decreased from 1810 to 1820 due to turmoil caused by the decade-long struggle for independence from Spain (by Mexico).
Desperate to turn the situation around, Mexico's leaders turned to immigration from the United States as a way to bolster Texas’ dwindling population.
The policy would be called colonization. The Mexican government granted contracts to land agents called empresarios. One of the first to plan large scale Anglo colonization of Texas was Moses Austin, a Connecticut businessman.
In 1820, Austin died just as his plans were being approved. His son, Stephen F. Austin, carried on his work and became the first empresario of Texas.
Although the system got off to a good start, the sheer number of Americans wanting to move to Texas quickly overwhelmed the Mexican territory. Within a space of only five years, from 1823 to 1828, the immigrant population had grown from about 500 to more than 30,000"
That was the start of TEXAS.
"The Texas population was only 3000 in 1810. Texas’ population had actually decreased from 1810 to 1820 due to turmoil caused by the decade-long struggle for independence from Spain (by Mexico).
Desperate to turn the situation around, Mexico's leaders turned to immigration from the United States as a way to bolster Texas’ dwindling population.
The policy would be called colonization. The Mexican government granted contracts to land agents called empresarios. One of the first to plan large scale Anglo colonization of Texas was Moses Austin, a Connecticut businessman.
In 1820, Austin died just as his plans were being approved. His son, Stephen F. Austin, carried on his work and became the first empresario of Texas.
Although the system got off to a good start, the sheer number of Americans wanting to move to Texas quickly overwhelmed the Mexican territory. Within a space of only five years, from 1823 to 1828, the immigrant population had grown from about 500 to more than 30,000"
That was the start of TEXAS.
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T Monahan
Supportive Member
Papa John
Lifetime Supportive Member
Texas was part of Mexico. It became a US territory only after the US defeated the Mexicans in response to the Alamo defeat.
Making The Alamo America's
First false flag event.
Making The Alamo America's
First false flag event.
