meh..........
okay.. well. a history lesson for us all now.
1.) yeah, alot of people did hate santa anna, thats why there was a civil war going on.. hm? no big deal..
2.)the mexicans that did fight with the so called "texans" were just people that wanted a stable country, **autonomy**. one notable soldier is named (i believe) juan seguin. after the revolution juan seguin held office as mayor in san antonio, he was shortly ran out of office though, (thanks for the support, juan!*
3.)if you mean mexico stole "LAND" as in during the revolution, thats absolute meh dude, no offense but youre reading texas text books. what actually happened is mexico passed anti slavery laws, which in turn pissed off the new anglo saxon settlers that were running around their territory. they tried to enforce the laws, simple and moral.
4.) as for the army that santa anna wielded, as you say superior*, i believe the numbers ranged from 1500-6000 (estimates). most of the army did however, consist of POORLY TRAINED mayan conscripts, imagine that superior army?
5.) strategy? no. the texans for the most part went into santa annas camp in the middle of the night and blew the @#^@ out of all the soldiers. real clever, texas. any of the soldiers that surrendered were clubbed, knived... etc. HEROISM at its best. im sure that if the mexicans had run in while the texas rebels were taking a siesta, they would of been stapled as using dirty tricks.. history bias anyone? glorious victory.. meh
6.) any MASSACRE that happened, opposed upon the texans, well.. i believe the name of the massacre is @ goliad & alamo. do you wonder why you never hear about the massacre at san jicnto, when santa annas army was asleep? . . .
7.) time to denounce the people at the alamo. the leader, william travis (?) had fled to texas after killing a man, leaving his family (wife/kids). davy crockett.. as im aware was an aging politician, who had no apparent reason to even be at the alamo. you get the idea
not even just at the alamo, but the entire people behind the texas rebels, were just people out to tell mexico to piss off because they wanted to have SLAVES they were fighting to have the freedom of owning SLAVES.
glorified.
afterwards, this set the stage for the mexican american war, a good excuse to continue the manifest-destiny idea presented by the anglo saxons of america, allowing them to conquer the remaining southwest that belonged to mexico.
the numbers have no real meaning, please note that im not "angry" so to speak, im just passionate
out