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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Everyone of the commentators take the Mexican side and portray America as the evil aggressor. They are even portraying Santa Anna as a hero with a "unique characteristics"

No mention of Santa Anna's acts of war against his own people or the Mexicans who fought for the United States.

10 posted on 09/29/2006 5:46:22 PM PDT by pulaskibush (USA, founded by tolerant Christians. USSR, founded by intolerant Secularist.)
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To: pulaskibush
arkansas national guard participated! apparantly one of the active duty generals hated the arkansas national , when a vistor asked where the arkansas guard was (during the mexican war) he said the last unit down stream.

Found this too.

Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the twenty-fifth state on June 15, 1836. Almost ten years later, on May 27, 1846, Governor Thomas Drew issued a proclamation calling for volunteers to fight in the Mexican War. All of the Arkansans who fought in the war were volunteers; militia raised from the civilian population, and, as such, were precursors to the National Guard as we know it today. When the companies of the various counties came together there were twenty-two companies of cavalry and seven of infantry. From these, ten companies of cavalry were selected for service in the Arkansas Regiment of Mounted Volunteers - a regiment that consisted of Arkansans from every conceivable social strata. Archibald Yell, a former governor, and at the time a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, gave up his seat and enlisted as a private, later to be elected to the position of colonel. He met his end in true heroic fashion while leading a desperate charge into Mexican lancers. Another famous and highly controversial Arkansan, Albert Pike, also joined the war effort. A prominent Little Rock lawyer and commander of the "Little Rock Guards", Pike offered his company to the governor as cavalry willing to serve in Mexico.

11 posted on 09/29/2006 6:27:19 PM PDT by Kewlhand`tek (Those that can't , Teach. Those that can't teach , Report)
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To: pulaskibush

And there was brief mention of the war the Mexicans we fighting with Indians living in now New Mexico and Arizona.


12 posted on 09/30/2006 3:55:13 PM PDT by ut1992 (Army Brat)
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