@dood111 saidThe men at the Alamo were irrelevant. They lost and Texas was unable to relieve or avenge them. Mexican armies continued to enter Texas at will until the USA got involved and invaded Mexico City.
If not for the men at the Alamo, Texas would still be part of Mexico and look just like Mexico..
Uhhmmmboy wouldn't tht be grand?
@rajk999 saidIf Latin America submitted to the Spanish there is a good chance the USA would have lost the Spanish American and Mexican American Wars. Andrew Jackson might have been kicked out of Florida too.
Texas would be a mess. Lots of cheap Coronas though.
Here is something that will piss off Duchess64. If Mexico had not fought but instead summited to the Spanish, and eventually came under US rule ie became one the States. They would have become a very prosperous state. Imagine if Central America did the same, what a prosperous region that would be.
Look at the map - the USA at the time was the area northeast of Louisiana:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Spanish_Empire_Anachronous_en.svg
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The post that was quoted here has been removedThey allowed the Mexicans to vote in the other States they took.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mexican_Americans
On July 4, 1848, the United States and Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which formally ended the war.[47] Under the conditions of defeat, Mexico also ceded more 525,000 square miles of territory.[48] The Treaty guaranteed full citizenship for all former-Mexican citizens who requested it, as well as formal U.S. citizenship to all who remained in the U.S. territories for one full year after the signing of the treaty.[49]
19 Jun 21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Mexico_Movement
After the US Army took Mexico City, there was renewed enthusiasm for incorporating all of Mexico. The idea was fiercely opposed in the US Congress, especially by a US senator from South Carolina, John C. Calhoun, who strongly objected to incorporating territory with a dense nonwhite population.