[WOSG]

Are they in the Santa Ana appreciation society, or on Aztlan payroll? :-)

Direct sources to debunk this historical revisionist lie:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/ghtreaty/

"By February 1836, Texans declared their territory to be independent and that its border extended to the Rio Grande rather than the Rio Nueces that Mexicans recognized as the dividing line. Although the Texans proclaimed themselves citizens of the Independent Republic of Texas on April 21, 1836 following their victory over the Mexicans at the Battle of San Jacinto, Mexicans continued to consider Tejas a rebellious province that they would reconquer someday."


Hidalgo Treaty map

http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/ghtreaty/ghmaps.jpg

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

You are correct, a little known fact was how the tiny Texas Navy was able to keep the Mexicans from landing supplies and people to aid Santa Anna.
After we won at San Jacinto and had released Santa Anna, our Navy was in very bad shape.
Texas bought a steamboat that was damaged in a hurricane,
They put cannons on the steamboat and used it to do more damage to the Mexican Navy which was only sailing vessels.

Santa Anna was making noise about invading Texas again.
But the Texas Navy raiding around the Yucatan kept the Mexicans busy and they did not invade Texas.
When Texas joined the United States they gave a lot of land in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado to the United States to repay their large debt incurred during the Texas Revolution.

[neb52]

Mexican Army was raiding and out right invading the Texas border prior to the war. This caused the American Troops there at the time to counter thus really starting the war before proper declaration. I think they are still sore over how we kicked their butt so hard when they supposedly had one of the best trained and experienced army. But who cares, this was a small war and was pretty much nothing more than a breading and testing ground for the coming Civil War.