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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
It was "their" land in the same sense the 13 colonies were England's, or Mexico was Spain's. The whole reason Mexico allowed the (largely) American colonists was because they didn't have enough natives interested in colonizing. Colonists fighting for the freedom to govern themselves resulted in the U.S.A., Mexico, and the Republic of Texas.
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I guess I see the battle of the Alamo different than the American Revolution. Maybe it's the way that both battles have been taught to me throughout my schooling. Never did we ever think that the colonists were these poor innocent people who just wanted to be free from big bad ol' England. But that's the way the Battle of the Alamo (and all the info leading up to it) was taught to us. I don't consider those men "heroes."