From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Von Fourche wrote:   
   >     Is the Alamo American history or is it Texas history that Americans have   
   > adopted since Texas became a state?  History books and TV programs/movies   
   > seem to portray the Alamo as American history.  But did Texas at that time   
   > consider itself part of the U.S.?  Or did they look on themselves almost   
   > like another country, separate from the U.S.?  I know the Alamo is part of   
   > American history, but is it really a part of American history?  Or did   
   > American just take that history over when Texas joined the union?  Hope I'm   
   > making sense.   
   >   
   >   
   Perhaps you could read up on that period of Texas outside of just the   
   battle. Texas, at the time, was Mexico. So, if by "Texas", you mean the   
   government of Texas, that was a Mexican state government. Various people   
   domiciled in Texas considered themselves Mexicans, Americans in Mexico   
   or members of various automonous Indian nations. Any number of   
   individuals and groups had various long-term ideas for Texas, but the   
   roots of the politics and actions that became the Texas revolution were   
   essentially grounded in a desire to be dealt with appropriately by the   
   Mexican federal government through a return to the Mexican Constitution   
   of 1824.   
      
   Popular, simplistic and inaccurate protrayals of have generally tried to   
   fit things into some sort of analogue of the New England rebellion   
   against Britain, portraying it as a unanimous popular uprising. It was   
   no such thing, being far more complex and chaotic and near enough became   
   a lost cause as you would care come. Of course, the American revolution   
   was quite different from naive popular image, too.   
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