Texas Declares Independence!

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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#

 

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What the Texas Revolution looked like to Mexicans

Posted 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.

 

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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/