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Originally posted by krazy
I watched a special on the hist. channel about it (like 2 hours long), and it said that many of the defenders of the Alamo were actually Mexican, and they were trying to escape Santa Anna's dictatorship... He was apparently a very brutal dictator... Anyways, it was good, and got me excited for the film...
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that's true.
The reason the first flag i posted bears an 1824 is in reference to the Mexican Constitution of 1824. The defenders believed that Santa Ana had violated many precepts of that constituion and were rallying to show their disapproval.
Kitso
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