1836 Battle between Mexico and Texas

Although the Alamo has romantic resonance in the history of the American frontier, the facts surrounding the war for Texas independence from Mexico in 1836 reveal a situation in which the attribute of heroism was confined to a few personalities but almost completely absent from the motives and behavior of the various institutional entities that had acquired a stake in the outcome of events on the ground. Reasons for that go to the geopolitical motives that informed the opening of Texas to settlement and development and the motives that informed those who engaged in the settlement and development. Equally important was the inchoate social and political environment of Texas at the time, with different groups of actors bringing with them significant differences of ethos and worldview. These various features of experience combined forcefully in 1836 to make history. In that connection, one historian comments that the Texas War for Independence was at once smal

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1833, a loose coalition of Texians and Tejanos, or Mexican-origin settlers, led by Houston and Austin, drafted a petition to establish Texas as the newest state of Mexico. Its rejection signaled war between Texians and Mexico; Austin was jailed for two years. Further complicating the matter at the time was Mexico's perennial flirtation with some version of civil war and Santa Anna's on-again, off-again presence in the country's public administration. The situation as of 1834 was that Santa Anna came out of voluntary exile to assume leadership. His first move was to put down secularist opposition and consolidate his centralized power in Mexico, in the process disposing of several thousand people. Alarmed, the Americanos in Texas redoubled their efforts to arm, whereupon Santa Anna released Austin from jail as a goodwill gesture. The intent was to defuse independence sentiment so that Santa Anna could focus on internal Mexican politics. An annotation in Davy Crockett's diary suggests that Santa Anna was fond of political intrigue. In the weeks before the siege at the Alamo, Crockett wrote that "Santa Anna has been endeavoring to excite the Indians to hostilities against the Texians, but so far without effect." In the case of Aus
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