> >>Jerry Liles
>
> This is incorrect Jerry. Your statement implies that Texas was WON from
> Mexico in the Mexican/American war by the United States, when it is better
> argued that the annexation of Texas (1845) _caused_ the Mexican American
> War, because. Please read below from Texas State Library and Archives
> Commission. I was going to cut and paste, but I thought you might want the
> URL.
> http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/annexation/ good summary
> http://www.azteca.net/aztec/war/Mexican-American-War.html great expl. of
> cause of Mex/Amer war.
>
> m bachofen
Matt
I did not mean to imply that Texas was won from Mexico by the US. I
distinctly said it became a republic after its own war of independence.
Annexation, however, is intimately associated with the Mexican American
war.
Boy, but Texans are touchy.
Jerry
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