XPost: soc.history.war.misc   
   From: jfvoegeNO@SPAMsympatico.ca   
      
   "Bob Tiernan"  wrote in message   
   news:Pine.GSO.4.63.0512072146240.19940@shell1.pacifier.net...   
   > dunric@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> ...was essentially Mexico vs. Mexico?   
   > [snip]   
   >> But...Texas in those days was a part of Mexico. Therefore,   
   >> the Battle of the Alamo (February 23 to March 6, 1836) was,   
   >> by definition, a civil war.   
   >>   
   >> Correct?   
   >   
   >   
   > No, more like a rebellion.  A civil war would have   
   > affected the entire nation of Mexico in that it   
   > would have been about control of the entire country,   
   > like a revolution.   
      
   Except that the ACW was about control of only part of the U.S.   
      
   Jim   
      
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