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"Americans Desire Freedom, But Don't Want Freedom to Negro Slaves. "

Mexico's largest newspaper, Mexico News, reported the atrocities of American immigrants with an entire page, and strongly condemned all kinds of appalling atrocities committed against slaves, and called on all people with conscience and faith to unite to fight against the evil slaves host.

〖They treat people as animals! Deprived of human freedom, those poor people are forced to work without pay. Those poor people were beaten with sticks, whipped with leather whips, and handcuffed and shackled, living a life worse than pigs and dogs.

Even though those poor people endured these pains and tortures, the slave owners still refused to let them go. They also separated their wives and separated each other, knocked out their teeth, and stamped on their bodies the symbol of humiliation and inhumanity. imprint.

Hunger and torture those poor people to their knees.

This is wrong! This is sinful! This is outrageous!

Do you want me to explain everything?

No! It's not necessary at all!

Our time and energy should be spent on more worthwhile things.

Now the slave owners are armed with guns and ready to turn our free Mexico and the civilized world into their slave estates.

And we can no longer hope to touch them with kindness, but pick up our swords to defend our homeland, cut off the chains of slaves, and throw those chains into the melting pot of the times, so that he can never come back to harm our future generations .

God is with us! 〗

This newspaper aroused great repercussions in Mexico, not only in Mexico, but even newspapers in Europe and the United States reprinted this article under deliberate dissemination.

It is now known throughout the Western world that a group of Americans intends to re-establish slavery in a country that has signed the Abolition Proclamation.

How shameless and barbaric this is, even the United States is divided into two factions, but they all admit that in a country that has abolished slavery, those who re-establish slavery are evil.

For a while, Mexico had the upper hand in public opinion, and the factions in the country were also unprecedentedly united. Catholicism was the lubricant for it. Everyone planned to let this group of damned Protestants and slavery go back to their hometown.

However, only the advantage of public opinion will not bring real victory.

On September 27, 1835, Gonzales fell without firing a single shot from the Mexican army.

On October 21, 1835, Goliad fell and all Mexican defenders were killed.

On October 2, 1835, San Antonio was besieged.

On December 9, 1835, San Antonio fell.

On December 30, 1835, all of Texas fell.

Goliad is the most important water and land transportation hub, whoever wins here controls San Antonio

At this time, San Antonio was the capital of Texas and also the most important food base and economic center.

So Tasan Anna set the first battle in Goliad.

On February 23, 1836, Tasan Anna brought an army of 8,000 people, 20,000 rifles, and 30 artillery pieces to Goliad.

Tasan Anna liked the feeling of being regarded as a hero. In order to satisfy his vanity, Franz specially prepared a "Declaration for the Emancipation of Black Slaves" for him.

Every time Tasan Anna conquered a place, he would gather the local black slaves and let them listen to his speech, so he stopped and stopped along the way.

Black slaves continued to ask to join Tasan Anna's army. Tasan Anna was worried that he had nowhere to send his guns, so he quickly formed three black rifle companies.

At the same time, according to what Franz said, Tasan Anna united all forces that could be united, and he sent people to contact the nearby Indian tribes.

Tasan Anna said that as long as Indians help Mexico and abide by Mexican laws, they are Mexicans, and they will not be treated differently.

In fact, the same words and similar promises were given to them by the pioneers of the United States, but the Indians have been deceived by the white people too many times, and they demanded to see the sincerity of Tasan Anna.

Tasan Anna directly ordered the soldiers to issue them with rifles, but each rifle was only issued with five rounds of bullets, and it was agreed that as long as the Indians could abide by the covenant and help Mexico attack the Americans, they could receive them every week A batch of bullets.

This made the Indian chiefs immediately fall in love with the Mexicans. Of course, there is no way for them to fight the Americans, but they can provide information and harass the American supply lines.

And this is exactly the effect Franz wants. In fact, as long as the Indians can remain neutral, it will be a good thing for the Mexican Expeditionary Force.

It would be perfect if the Indians could help gather intelligence, attack the supply lines of the American pioneers, and hunt down deserters alone.

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American reclamation businessman Sam Houston, the current commander-in-chief of Texas, and the future first president of the Lone Star Republic, because the pioneers were divided into several factions, and his own troops were too far away from San Antonio.

Sam Houston didn't want to make unnecessary sacrifices and decided to abandon San Antonio. He ordered the defenders in San Antonio to abandon Goliad and turn to the countryside, waiting for the arrival of the main force from Texas.

In fact, before Houston's order arrived, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com many militiamen and soldiers who temporarily joined the army used various reasons to escape from the fortress.

The most common reason is to go home to harvest wheat. It is normal for everyone to go home to harvest wheat.

However, Texas grows winter wheat, which is usually sown from mid-to-late September to early October, and matures from the end of May to mid-to-late June of the following year. Now it is February, and the local plantation economy is all black. slave doing...

Only Colonel William Travis and 150 of his men remained, but he still intended to refuse Houston's order.

William Travis knew how important Goliad and San Antonio were to the whole of emerging Texas.

Because once San Antonio is occupied by the Mexicans, it will be able to bring a steady stream of supplies to Tasan Anna and his Mexican Legion.

In the eyes of William Travis, Texas's military strength is seriously insufficient, with less than 2,000 regular troops, and even with the addition of volunteers from the United States, it will not exceed 3,500.

And Tasan Anna's expeditionary force has 8,000 people, and there are Mexican armed forces in the local area, plus those **** black slaves, Indians and those traitors are constantly joining Tasan Anna's team .

William Travis pinned his last hope on the United States. He hoped that the United States could directly participate in the war. For this reason, he must not lose San Antonio.

In order to hold Goliad, William Travis began to write letters asking for help. He needed more soldiers and more weapons.

However, the Texans are also divided into several factions. Most of the leaders of these factions are the leaders of the reclamation groups. These reclamation groups have been in a long-term competitive relationship, so most people chose to turn a blind eye to William Travis's request for help. .