On the warpath . sing of ports, and anti-slavery and anti-coloniza-tion laws. Texas was fighting mad, and we sent GeneralAustin with the request that Texas be made one of the statesof the Mexican Union. Mexicos reply was to throw ourgeneral into jail, whereupon we sent troops. In 1835 Texasuprose, drove out the Mexicans and proclaimed a republic. Mexicos president, Santa Ana, cruelly murdered the gar-rison of the Alamo at San Antonio and he was followed up anddefeated by General Houston at San Jacinto. We acknowl-edged Texan independence in 1839, and annexed Texas tothe Union in 1845. A row re
On the warpath . sing of ports, and anti-slavery and anti-coloniza-tion laws. Texas was fighting mad, and we sent GeneralAustin with the request that Texas be made one of the statesof the Mexican Union. Mexicos reply was to throw ourgeneral into jail, whereupon we sent troops. In 1835 Texasuprose, drove out the Mexicans and proclaimed a republic. Mexicos president, Santa Ana, cruelly murdered the gar-rison of the Alamo at San Antonio and he was followed up anddefeated by General Houston at San Jacinto. We acknowl-edged Texan independence in 1839, and annexed Texas tothe Union in 1845. A row resulted over the southern bounda-ries, we claiming the Rio Grande and Mexico to the fought and fixed it in our own favor, and then gave tenmillion dollars to determine the north and west joined the secession in 1861, but was received againinto the Union in 1870. Dogfights and scraps are perennialalong the border, and have been so from the beginning, espe-cially during the last ten PETRIFIED TREE BRIDGE ARIZONA
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