"Why Mexico Won the Alamo but Lost the Mexican-American" Topic

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Tango01	16 Jan 2020 9:38 p.m. PST
…War "In March 1836, Mexican forces overran the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, achieving victory over those who had declared Texas' independence from Mexico just a few weeks earlier. Although nearly everyone at the Alamo was killed or captured, Texas achieved independence when Sam Houston won an unlikely victory at the Battle of San Jacinto the following month. Mexico – which had easily won victory at the Alamo – soon faced an America that had annexed Texas and was becoming a major player on the world stage. How did once-dominant Mexico lose the Mexican-American War?…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
SpuriousMilius	17 Jan 2020 11:51 a.m. PST
Why Mexico lost Texas at San Jacinto & the Mexican American War? A dictator named Santa Anna.
The Virtual Armchair General	17 Jan 2020 12:16 p.m. PST
SpuriusMilius! That's a serious part of it, but the causes go much deeper into Mexican society, racism, regionalism, corruption, and almost everything that could guarantee ultimate diaster for any country. TVAG
Tango01	18 Jan 2020 12:15 p.m. PST
Totally agree!…. Amicalement Armand
Sargonarhes	18 Jan 2020 5:08 p.m. PST
Interesting, so Mexico's defeat was not a question of if but when.
Wolfshanza	19 Jan 2020 11:20 p.m. PST
The explanation that I heard was that we didn't win the war…Mexico lost it.
Historydude18	22 Jan 2020 7:59 p.m. PST
They won the Alamo because they were better trained, better equipped, and outnumbered the defenders by like ten to one. Plus the Alamo was too big to be adequately defended by 180-250 Texans. It's a no brainer why the Alamo was a Mexican victory but I do not know why they lost EVERY battle of the Mexican-American War or how they were so terribly defeated at San Jacinto. I mean, they outnumbered the Texans there.
StarCruiser	25 Jan 2020 9:38 a.m. PST
San Jacinto was won by Texas because – quite simply – we attacked early while Santa Ana sat on his ass (overconfidence being his undoing).