QUIS LEGET HAEC

Saturday

Well it seems that no one likes me any more. I have recieved no phone call or anything. Once New Years comes around, everyone leaves. Anyway, I'm almost done with my capstone. Can you beleive all the information I've been gathering about Texas History. so many things happened aside from what is taught in school. I couldn't beleive half the sh*t I came across. For instance, there were't just two adult and children survivors, there were others, including two defender. He and another man supposedly hid, but another account said he cried for mercy. Other survivors were mainly women and children from the countryside that had saught refuge in the Alamo when the Mexican army advanced on Bejar. Another thing that I never knew about was the battle of Anahuac fought in 1832 which was actually the beginning of disontent in Texar, or I should say the last straw. The skirmishes there were incited by William B. Travis against the man who jailed him, Juan Davis Bradburn, an ex-American who became a Mexican citizen and Mexican officer during the fight for independence from Spain AND the fight was incited over slaves. The Mexican Constitution of 1824 had abolished slavery! ANOTHER THING I DIDN"T KNOW!!! Mexican officials had called for colonization of Tejas since 1807 but the war for Mexican independence ruined Texas and Erasmo Seguin thought with colonization by Anglos would help Texas economy. Erasmo Seguin, in helping Austin, fought for the colonists to keep their slaves. Imagine that, people wanting freedom in 1835 wanted to subjegate others. Seguin was actually involved in the first attempt in 1811, but he was on the Spanish side. His son was involved in the Texas Revolution. I have about 36+ pages already and I'm still not finished. Don't worry, I still have to go back and revise the title and the whole document. I started of with Manifest Destiny but turns out that it is too broad of a subject. I'll have to just focus on Texas Revolution. I'll save the Manifest Destiny question for my Thesis if I decide to get my Masters. Good luck.

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