From: laro@idworld.net   
      
   "Kye Ohtie"  wrote in message   
   news:402794be@news.zianet.com...   
   > In article <40278fff@news.zianet.com>, howl@dontemailme.com says...   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >Here is an excellent web site that   
   > >discusses the "Hacienda System" as   
   > >it applied to Mexico under Spanish   
   > >rule (that would include 1820):   
   >   
   > Correction: Texas under Mexican rule   
   > would include 1820 (until 1836).   
   > Spanish rule of Mexico ended in 1810.   
      
   Spanish rule of Mexico and Texas ended in 1821, as far as I know, and that   
   would make your first post correct and your second post confusing.   
      
   Texas under Mexican rule was from 1821-1836...  or so I remember from when I   
   was a little boy listening to stories from my grandfather Pancho...  Oh yes,   
   there have been a few books since then, too, cause my grandfather told a lot   
   of "stories"....  :-)   
      
   You may have been thinking of Spanish rule in Texas ending in 1813 or so,   
   when Texas briefly was under the "Green Flag" of that small band of brothers   
   under Gutierrez and Magee?   But that didn't last very long, ending when a   
   Lt. Santa Anna (same one) came to Texas with a group under Gen. Arredondo (I   
   think).  That was when Santa Anna learned how to "end" a war.   You simply   
   kill every man and enslave every woman!  That pretty well ended things.  For   
   a while.   
      
   That was when Santa Anna was Spanish.  Later, after 1821, he was   
   Mexican...and he thereafter rose to the top of his chosen profession of   
   Generalissimo and all-powerful ruler.    That guy could sure change costumes   
   fast!  :-)   
      
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