Talk:Fort Selden

This article needs greater balance
One of the reasons the American military needed greater presence in this region was to police illegal activities by American settlers, traders, and filibusters who were moving through the lawless neutral zone into Texas, squatting on land illegally, inciting unrest in Indian tribes, and engaging in guerrilla raids against the Spanish. Despite repeated declarations by the American government that such activity was forbidden, little was done to curb it. American military forces at the south-west frontier were insufficient and poorly equipped, and their leaders, who mostly favoured an American invasion of Spanish dominions in the hopes of conquering Texas and even Cuba, were disinclined to police the situation except when specific orders were given. When the Spanish pushed back against the incursionists, exaggerated claims of an imminent Spanish invasion of American territory would become the stuff of public agitation, and worse, of the advice of American military leaders to their superiors.

CactusPolecat (talk) 22:33, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

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