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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Bleh. Flashbacks to seventh grade history. Essentially, you have Stephen F. Austin and his father who convinced the Mexican government to allow US citizens into Tejas to set-up colonies. They did, and they did. US citizens arose in large groups establishing many large colonies in the hill country and southern coastal plains. Soon, the US citizens were beginning to outnumber the Mexican citizens, so Mexico tried to stem the flow of US citizens into Tejas (now called Texas by the US citizens). The Mexicans and the US citizens got really pissed at each over various things like taxation (US citizens felt they paid too much in violation of the settlement treaties), loyalty (Mexico felt the US citizens should be loyal to Mexico first since Texas was their's), slavery (US citizens wanted it, but Mexico wanted to phase it out), and control (Mexico began asserting greater control on Texas and even took Austin in custody and sent him to prison for a while). So, war breaks out. The US citizens in Texas declared themselves Texans and rebelled against Mexico. They claimed their independence; a constitution and provisional government was set up at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Sam Houston took control of the Texas Army. Mexican forces always outnumbered the Texan forces and the fights were brutal (the Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto in particular). Eventually, Texas won it's independence from Mexico following the Battle of San Jacinto. Santa Ana, leader of Mexico and her forces, was captured and forced to relinquish claims on Texas before being released. The Republic of Texas was proclaimed. There was much rejoicing. Texas remained an independent nation for several years. Sam Houston served as president multiple times, and he and the other presidents were always switching the capitol of the country from Houston to Austin and back and forth. Finally, Texas decided just to join the US; Texas was annexed soon afterwards. Mexico felt vindicated in some regards seeing as how it was a common belief that the US was behind the rebellion (indeed, the US provided many of the supplies, but never actively joined the conflict). However, Mexico disagreed about her border with Texas. The US and Texas said it was the Rio Grande. Mexico said it was much further north. So we get the Mexican-American War where the US stomped the Mexicans and made the Rio Grande the border. In addition, Mexico ceded it's territory that covered what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Part of what was the northwestern portion of the Republic of Texas is sliced off and given to New Mexico. Texas didn't really want it anyway. Not too long after all that, Texas joins with the Confederacy, although only one battle in the War of Northern Aggression was fought in Texas. The Battle of Palmito Ranch, strangely enough, was fought after the South had surrendered. No email in those days. We beat the crap out the Yankees, too. Many years later, George W. Bush is elected governor of Texas and then becomes the 43rd President of the United States. I'm sure there's other important stuff in there (like the UT A&M rivalry, NASA, etc), but I want to keep this under 5000 words. And that is what my memory recalls from Texas History. Yay. Those are the basics. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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