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RE: [OM] RE: [OT] Texas -- see URL

Subject: RE: [OM] RE: [OT] Texas -- see URL
From: "Timpe, Jim" <Jim.Timpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:49:14 -0800
54/40 or fight.

-----Original Message-----
From: W. J. Liles [mailto:wliles@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 1:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [OM] RE: [OT] Texas -- see URL


> >>Jerry Liles
> 
> This is incorrect Jerry.  Your statement implies that Texas was WON from
> Mexico in the Mexican/American war by the United States, when it is better
> argued that the annexation of Texas (1845) _caused_ the Mexican American
> War, because.    Please read below from Texas State Library and Archives
> Commission.  I was going to cut and paste, but I thought you might want
the
> URL.
> http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/annexation/  good summary
> http://www.azteca.net/aztec/war/Mexican-American-War.html  great expl. of
> cause of Mex/Amer war.
> 
> m bachofen

Matt

I did not mean to imply that Texas was won from Mexico by the US.  I
distinctly said it became a republic after its own war of independence. 
Annexation, however, is intimately associated with the Mexican American
war.  

Boy, but Texans are touchy.

Jerry


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