Draggingtree Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 March 2, 1836 Texas Declares Independence! On March 1, 59 delegates held the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos. There they drafted the Texas Declaration of Independence and adopted it on March 2. During the Convention, delegates also drafted the Texas Constitution, outlining their plan for the new Republic. This took place only a month after Santa Anna entered Texas with his army of 6,000 men. Mexico’s army vastly outnumbered the Texas rebels. http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/texas-history-timeline# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 What the Texas Revolution looked like to MexicansPosted on March 1, 2016 | By Camilo Smith The saying that history is written by the victors might not always be true. In the case of the Texas Revolution, Mexicans have their own view of events. From their perspective it was an insurrection based on laws over slavery and imperial expansion. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS: The definitive Texas history quiz The battle to liberate Texas from Mexican rule in the mid 1830s is known as a revolutionary act to many Americans. But to Mexicans it was a revolt led by militias made up of American settlers who had just arrived in the area then known as Coahuila and Texas. For Mexicans the revolt is known as the “insurrección de los texanos,” or the Texans’ insurrection. FROM THE ARCHIVES: Galveston, San Antonio, Dallas and other Texas cities in the late 1800s The Texas Revolution is “misnamed because it was rather a strategic advance planned and supported by the U.S. government. Many ‘Texans’ were not a year of living there,” read one article on the history of fighting between the U.S. and Mexico. http://blog.chron.com/lavoz/2016/03/what-the-texas-revolution-looked-like-to-mexicans/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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