Leftist Mexican Revanchist propoganda
As I understand it, the government of Mexico invited anglos into Texas with promises of the constitutional protections of the Mexican Constitution. When Santa Ana took over Mexico, he suspended the Constitution and Texas rebelled and established itself as a separate country. The declaration of its independence was signed by at least a couple of people with Hispanic surnames.
Ten years later, the people of Texas asked to be annexed into the United States and the war started shortly thereafter. One has to wonder why the United States would start a war at the Texas line.
Typical University History class test.
Texas' southernmost boundary was not the Rio Grande but the Nueces River, says Nora McMillan, history professor at San Antonio College. There was no basis for the claim that the border rested farther south, at the Rio Grande, says UTSA history professor Felix Almaraz.
BS
"How much do you know about the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846?"
Enough to know that I stand a better than average chance of surviving the next one.
"Funny, given that without that major U.S. conquest, we might be living in Mexico, not Texas."
What an ignorant fool ... Texas was INDEPENDENT from 1836 and not part of Mexico even prior to war with Mexico.
WE WON!
Is this supposed to make me say...oh yea..Mexico can invade a sovereign country..let's just let them take over.
Ahhhh..I don't think so. No sale.
Look at some of the answers. 'Land hungry'?
Revisionist history is under way as we speak. This cannot stand.
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Maybe. But the term *gringo* has been described as having been derived from the Mexicans overhearing the marching troops singing the tune Green Grow the Rushes, Oh! an old English *counting song* akin to the *Twelve Days of Christmas.
I strongly suspect that French troops would have been singing something else....
Accordingly, other *facts* in this story are also suspect.