Essays on Santa Anna

Introduction

Texas has had a colorful history since the beginning of time. It then became a nation, and then a state. Traditional history writers have often taken the path of romanticizing the events in history and rationalizing on why they had to occur. Oftentimes, the premise was always the proclamation of the superiority of the Anglo-American over the Native American and Mexican occupants of the land. Modern historians like Fehrenbach, Crisp and others have endeavored to write history in the context of how the events really happened, coming to their own conclusions as to how these events occurred, and avoiding ...

Introduction

The Texas Revolution started in October 1835 with Gonzales’s battle and ended on April 21, 1836, with San Jacinto’s battle. Rogers states, “During the early 1800s, Mexico invited Americans to settle in Texas” (4). Mexico had hope that the settlers would develop the northern part of Mexico. Life in America was so hard that many Americans moved with their slaves to Texas. Even though there were some of the Mexican- born settlers that moved to Texas, a majority of the settlers were from America. There were too many Americans in Texas that it worried the Mexican leaders. ...

Texas, unlike the other states, is part of the United States by treaty instead of territorial incorporation. Before it became a state, it first belonged to Spain then it became part of Independent Mexico in 1824. The Spanish authorities let the Americans acquire land in the region from 1821 with terms that included, them converting into Catholic and handling all their affairs in Spanish (Barr, 1990). The Texas revolution, also the Texas war for Independence, was an outcome of some serial events that started out long before the firing of the first shots in Gonzales on October 2, 1835 and ...