The river referred to here as 'Rio Grande' is in fact the Río Bravo del Norte ... find yourself a map, and observe how far south it is of the Nueces, which was the southern limit to the lands over which those negrero scum had gained certain rights in exchange for giving their word to develop the territory under the catholic faith and to uphold the laws of the land in performing the duties and responsibilities incumbent on citizens of la República
Before this incident mentioned, there was at least one other involving a patrol of cavalry ... how large a patrol i do not recall ... but it should at some point become fairly obvious to anyone with an open mind, that there had been many incidents prior to that time, prior to that decade even, or the decade before
See, they told you in school it was about freedom, when really on the anglo side it was about slavery, and wiping out catholics, taking their lands, and working negros on them .... good cotton and rice land in there you see, one of the Ulrich B Phillips books gets into this, how rich was the land, how ideal it was for working negros
One thing you could check out, were you actually interested in the facts [pffft], is what the US negotiator for the tratado de GH said in his diary [or in letter to his wife?] regarding the actual picture of what was happening ... his name was Trist, Nícolas for first name if memory serves ... he was quite nauseated by what his nation was doing ... another search term would be that snake Poinsett, find out the ways in which his machinations had impaired any sort of cordial relations between the two nations
Gold closed today at 357.80, if anybody cares ... i guess that's as relevant to a death penalty thread as is your attempt to justify your ethnic cleansing philosophy |
