If Texas lost it's war for independence, how big would America be? Would there be a war later with Mexico?
Santa Anna's goal during his 1836 campaign was to drive all of the Anglo-American settlers from Texas.
Because nothing says, "I want y'all to stay!" like declaring "No Quarter" for separatist, massacring the Goliad defenders and burning down ever town he came to. (Bastop, Harrisburg, Washington-on-the-Brazos, San Felipe...) He Santa Anna may not have intended to drive them out, but it was the unforgiving effect of his tactics that did it in the end.as I understand it, his goal wasn't to 'drive the yanks out of TX'