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To: fgoodwin

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


6 posted on 05/16/2006 8:47:10 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

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


10 posted on 05/16/2006 9:58:28 PM PDT by WOSG (Do your duty, be a patriot, support our Troops - VOTE!)
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