Alamo was/is an Anglo Bullshit tale, a myth. A bunch of loser Texas Anglos

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3. Can't read more w/out signing up, so I don't know if they mentioned the tax 'holiday' granted by the Mexican gov't ...

With the passage of the Coahuila-Texas colonization law, Mexico encouraged foreign settlers to buy land in the territory with a $30 down payment, without the requirement of paying taxes for ten years after that.

https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/texas-history-timeline

I had read elsewhere that Mexico encouraged Southerners with experience growing cotton to relocate to Texas, because they seemed to have the knowledge and experience needed to produce the best cotton yields, which would be a boost to Mexican industry and tax revenue. The tax holiday was part of the inducement to relocate. When the tax holiday expired, the Americans (nascent Confederates, really) said, basically, "Pay taxes to brown people ?? Hell, no ! We got gunz !" and cooked up a rebellion of -- well, scofflaws, really. Men who agreed to a generous contract and then ... when it was time to finish their part of fulfilling the contract ... decided to abscond with the benefits and take the land with them.

Something very, very, Trumpian about that.