Happy Independance Day Texas

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Sounds like you should read a bit more on Texas history since you've got some important pieces wrong, and it's a tad insulting.

Your version is the usual one, which is teached in Texas and in the United States : some valorous colonists, oppressed by a dictatorial authority, take guns and occupy a fort. They are all exterminated by brutal enemy soldiers. But their sacrifice needs a revenge and the fraternal United States run and bring peace and freedom.

But a flattering (WASP ?) and mythical version ! What are thinking in Texas the Spanish speaking people, or the descendants of people who where living here before Union rules, about it ?

When I was younger, I studied American history in Saint-Cyr (the French equivalent of West Point) and I got a Master's in History.

I learned that history is unfortunately history. Nothing in the past can be changed. But in theory, only. Because events can be differently presented, great events unawared, and minor ones magnified.

In this case, it's no more history, only propaganda.

Insulting ? No, only disturbing !