My Response to The Alamo

Authors Note: I wrote about the Alamo to try and show how courageous these men were in what they stood for.

The Alamo was one of the most historic battles in American history but was shadowed by the Civil War. Although the Civil War happened 30 years later most people think of the major wars in American history as The Revolutionary War, The Civil War and World War Two. Even though The United States - Mexican was a major war that gave us about 30% of the land America has today. I think the reason most people don't think of this as a major war is because America has a tendency to overcome great forces that try control us but in this war we were controlling Mexico and trying to gain their land.

The war was mainly for land but the Alamo was an attempt at freedom from Mexico for Texas because they wanted to join the U.S. Mexicans didn't want that to happen because America was on the rise and Mexico on the fall. If Mexico gave America any land then surely we would become the more dominant country easily. If that happened then Mexico's economy would surely suffer which is always bad.

At the time people in Europe got curious about the about the west and which country was the strongest and so not only was it a war for land but it was a statement war, which country could kill more of the other countries soldiers. A sick thing but both countries thought it was important for other countries to know what they could do with their military. Europe did take a little consideration that America was strong but not much it wasn't until World War Two that America became a world wide powerhouse. So a war that killed approximately 15,000 people could have been avoided.

All in all this war didn't need to happen but both sides governments thought they needed to tell other countries  that they were powerful. Back then all people really cared about was who was powerful near them because no one was going to cross The Atlantic ocean unless it was for a very important purpose such as the revolutionary war. Although America did get some land out of the war was it worth 15,000 lives? I don't think so because our nation might not be as powerful but it would survive without that land but obviously people back then didn't have the same opinion.