AHC reverse San Jacinto, Texas stays with Mexico

How could this have happened?

How big of a difference does it make.

Do Anglo settlers continue to come and seek to keep their institutions (notably the peculiar one)

Does the USA still reach the Pacific?

Might Mexico attract more Europeans, notably Catholics from Ireland?
 
Reverse the outcome of San Jacinto? Simple, just have someone actually keep watch and avoid being caught off-guard.

Alternatively, the battle OTL was chaotic enough. So long Santa Anna is not captured, and/or perhaps if Houston is killed instead of shot in the leg or off his horse, the tide won't turn in favor of the Anglo-Texans. Avoid the Velasco Treaty, and the Anglo-Americans have less leg to stand on for claiming the land. Not that it will stop them, but it helps. In any case, even if Mexico still loses the battle, they still had about 2-4 thousand troops west of the San Jacinto. No captured Santa Anna means no orders to retreat south of the Rio Bravo, and so they can be called in instead to advance northeast if the war doesn't end in San Jacinto.
 

samcster94

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The U.S. would reach the Pacific w/o Mex-Am war(imagine the U.S. having modern day Oregon/Washington alone for that coast).
 
What often isn't explored in scenarios where the Texians lose at San Jacinto is that General Pendleton Gaines was in Louisiana on the east bank of the Sabine river with the 6th US infantry and some number of dragoons. He had given a wink and a nod to "desertions" for some of the volunteers in the Texas army. The border between Texas and the US was not clearly defined. Had Santa Anna continued eastward, there's legitimate speculation whether that would have triggered a response from the US Army, ostensibly to safeguard the thousands of Americans caught up in the runaway scrape, as Gaines' order was to protect the border's tranquility from Indian attacks.
There's this little gem, which I found on ancestry dot com. At the moment, I don't know if it actually matches the reality of the situation, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was more to Gaines' proximity to the border than simply "protecting the tranquility of the border".
Francis T. Duffau, for example, a member of John A. Quitman'sqv company of Mississippi volunteers, claimed to have had documentary proof that President Andrew Jackson had assured Sam Houston that if the Mexican army were to cross the Trinity River, Gaines and his army would come to the Texans' aid. Historian Henderson Yoakum wrote that Gaines ordered Col. William Whistler and elements of the Seventh United States Infantry to the Nacogdoches area to suppress Indian hostilities, thus freeing Houston's army to deal with the Mexican invasion.
 
Really, the Trinity? When the border was at the Sabine?

Well, it doesn't surprise me that much, considering things. But still...
 
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