User talk:Volarekathy99

The following statement is not true: Santa Anna believed that Travis was overly rude and disrespectful towards him, and had that not happened, he would have allowed Sam Houston to establish a dominant presence there. The reason it is not true is because Sam Houston was not at the Alamo. He did not go to San Antonio; he did not tell the Texians to defend the Alamo. In fact, he had told them to blow it up and leave it. Sam Houston had been at Washington-on-the-Brazos where the fledgling Texas government was meeting to declare independence while the siege at the Alamo was going on. Sam Houston was encouraging the assembled Texas government to put their grievances and a declaration of independence into writing. Then he and his forces left and went to Gonzales, Texas, where on March 13 he found out from survivor Susanna Dickinson that the Alamo had fallen on March 6, 1836. I am not disputing that Travis may have been rude to Santa Anna, but to say that Santa Anna would have allowed Sam Houston to establish a dominant presence at the Alamo or in San Antonio is simply not true.