It would have deprived the Americans of the casus belli for their 1846 intervention: that U. S. soldiers had been killed in their own soil. Because the land ... "Texas" would not have lost because the revolt was mostly by Anglo Americans, almost all in Texas less than two years, and a majority less than a year. read more
Texas Revolution. The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) began when colonists (primarily from the United States) in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralized Mexican government. read more