January 2, 200422 yr Author I know the Alamo as the 'building', well the ruins really, but I don't know what happened there and why is so important and so......... I'm just asking! :dozey:
January 2, 200422 yr I believe it was something about America conquering part of Mexico and losing the battle... why would you want to remember that?
January 2, 200422 yr Author Well because everyone talks about 'El Alamo' and I have no idea why is so important! and........ I guessed people from the U.S.A will know, and will tell me...... :/
January 2, 200422 yr Alamo...isn't in all-that-much ruins. only a million folks visit it each year! lmao and freakin buy millions of $ worth of souvinirs! Alamo is where Steven F. Austin, Lamar, and a few others fought. It's turned into a legend, that's why you hear so much about it. Marketing. :sneaky: those who lost were American settlers on Mexican land. It was kinda like their 'Last Stand', so that's why it's remembered for the men's courage and one's ultimate thing to do: give life to gain liberty. i forget right now some important peoples' names who lost their lives here. some great country-western hero...what's his name....damn!
January 2, 200422 yr i forget right now some important peoples' names who lost their lives here. some great country-western hero...what's his name....damn! Have you seen the show Time squad? messed up show, but I remember seeing one about that. I can't remember that guy's name either.
January 2, 200422 yr Author ah, Thanks! I still don't know what's the big deal with 'El Alamo'........ :/ :lol:
January 2, 200422 yr For some reason I was thinking they were Texans rebelling against the Mexicans...
January 2, 200422 yr yeah. texans...white settlers from the U.S., from the eastern shores of Mississippi. Sam Houston was from Tennessee, for example. Sternly, it's all just hype and marketing, for the most part. more important battle was at San Jacinto, where Santa Ana got defeated and Texas won its independence. :dozey:
January 2, 200422 yr But what I don't get is how they were Americans if they were Texans trying to gain' independence from Mexico. Weren't they technically part of Mexico still? Or was this American troops helping Texas gain it's independence from Mexico? One small interesting fact: Michigan at one time many years ago almost went to war with Ohio.
January 2, 200422 yr Author ah, Thanks! We don't have American History, well we do but about the Continet. wheat we don't have it's the United States History, so I've learned a bit reading but not much! [ wasn't when the French had the Suth and then Mexico and they'beated' Mexico and they got California, New Mexico & Texas? and when they 'bought' Louisiana to the Frechs?]
January 2, 200422 yr With all this history talk, please click this link for a small interesting brief fact about mainly my state and another state's conflict: http://www.detnews.com/history/ohio/ohio.htm
January 2, 200422 yr guess that's why we still have a good football rivalry between U-Mich and Ohio State! :D what i meant to say was: the whites were just settlers...like now, how we got so many illegal immigrants here. it's them who revolted against mexican rule. so they were americans, althought nominally they were mexican citizens.
January 2, 200422 yr Author Um' date=' I have no clue what your talking about....[/quote'] I'm talking when you anexated California, New Mexico [i think it was not caleld like that then] and Texas; they were all Mexicans! and then I'm talkign about when you bought Luoisana to the Frenchs, at a miserable prize! [or what is Alaska to the Russians? or maybe both? :/ ]
January 2, 200422 yr ...They weren't Americans than if they were MEXICAN citizens technically... :dozey: Well... we don't have that big of a rivalry. The biggest rivalry amungst college football here is within Michigan University (Ann Arbor) and Michigan State University (Lansing).
January 2, 200422 yr We bought Alaska from Russia. France offered us the Louisiana purchase and we took it.
January 2, 200422 yr Author Please no Americamn futbol! And they were Americans, not Mexicans! [why Mexicans would want to gain independence from Mexico?]
January 2, 200422 yr ...And Hawaii...We removed their Queen as I recall, de-throned her... And we made a deal with them to use them as a military port.
January 2, 200422 yr Um, if they were from TEXAS, which was a still part of MEXICO, they were obviously MEXICAN REBELS. Is that so hard to get really?
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