"Why Mexico Won the Alamo but Lost the Mexican-American" Topic
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Tango01  | 16 Jan 2020 8:38 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?…"
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| SpuriousMilius | 17 Jan 2020 10:51 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 11:16 a.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 11:15 a.m. PST |
Totally agree!…. Amicalement
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| Sargonarhes | 18 Jan 2020 4:08 p.m. PST |
Interesting, so Mexico's defeat was not a question of if but when. |
 Wolfshanza | 19 Jan 2020 10:20 p.m. PST |
The explanation that I heard was that we didn't win the war…Mexico lost it. |
| Historydude18 | 22 Jan 2020 6:59 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 8:38 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). |
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