Thread 24705458

The Dead March

>>24705458 (OP)
Fun fact, Mexico became independent from the Spanish in 1820 and the United States annexed Texas in 1845, the same years when France was trying to invade central Mexico, northern Mexico was indefensible, too empty, unorganized, the United States could have invaded more territory but they didn't want to, Mexico was about to collapse and in fact it collapsed, 60 years later, the Mexican revolution was in 1910, and then a dictatorship that ended only in 2000, to continue with the fight against the cartel, Mexico is a country with a sad history, since the creation of my country in 1820, we have never experienced a period of peace, and before that, there was the viceroyalty, the conquest, which lasted 300 years ironically very peaceful

>>24707385
Is Mexico as bad nowadays as media portrays it?

>>24705458 (OP)
Blood meridian

>>24705458 (OP)
which war?
>kek

>Scotty joined in a four-handed game of Poker, and I sauntered
from table to table, watching with interest. Oaths and cigar smoke
filled the air, knives were drawn but no blood was spilt as friends
would interfere before the disputants came to blows. At one small
table sat two men playing Eukre for the drinks. One, who was
quietly playing his hand in a mild timid way utterly at variance with his hardened desperate appearance, was short and thick set,
his face bronzed by exposure to the hue of an Indian, with eyes
deeply sunken and bloodshot, and coarse black hair hanging in
snakelike locks down his back. His costume was that of a Mexican
herdman, made of leather, with a Mexican blanket thrown over
his shoulder. His opponent was a tall reckless, good looking young
Ranger, dressed in a red shirt and buckskin leggings. A dispute
arose, the short ruffian threw a glass of liquor in the tall one’s face,
who sprang to his feet, drew his revolver, and placing the muzzle
against the breast of the thrower, swore with fearful oaths “that if
he did not apologize he would blow a hole through him a Rabbit
could jump through!”
>The threatened man did not move from his seat, but replied,
“Shoot and be d — d, but if you miss, John Glanton won’t miss
you!” When he mentioned his name, a look of fear passed over
the Ranger’s face; he pulled the trigger, but only the cap exploded!
Quick as a flash Glanton sprang up, a huge Bowie knife flashed in
the candlelight, and the tall powerful young Ranger fell with a
sickening thud to the floor a corpse, his neck cut half through.
Glanton jumped over the table and placing one foot on his victim
said,
>“Strangers! Do you wish to take up this fight? If so step out, if
not we’ll drink.” As no one seemed disposed to accept the challenge, all hands went with him to the Bar and touched glasses with
him. The warm body was carried out, sawdust was sprinkled over
the bloodstained floor, Glanton carefully wiped his knife on the
leather sleeve of his jacket, and matters in the Bexar Exchange resumed their usual course.
-from My Confession, by Samuel Chamberlain, a book which today is most known as the historical basis for Blood Meridian.

>Scotty joined in a four-handed game of Poker, and I sauntered from table to table, watching with interest. Oaths and cigar smoke filled the air, knives were drawn but no blood was spilt as friends would interfere before the disputants came to blows. At one smalltable sat two men playing Eukre for the drinks. One, who was quietly playing his hand in a mild timid way utterly at variance with his hardened desperate appearance, was short and thick set, his face bronzed by exposure to the hue of an Indian, with eyesdeeply sunken and bloodshot, and coarse black hair hanging in snake like locks down his back. His costume was that of a Mexican herdman, made of leather, with a Mexican blanket thrown over his shoulder. His opponent was a tall reckless, good looking young Ranger, dressed in a red shirt and buckskin leggings. A dispute arose, the short ruffian threw a glass of liquor in the tall one’s face, who sprang to his feet, drew his revolver, and placing the muzzle against the breast of the thrower, swore with fearful oaths “that if he did not apologize he would blow a hole through him a Rabbit could jump through!”
>The threatened man did not move from his seat, but replied, “Shoot and be d — d, but if you miss, John Glanton won’t miss you!” When he mentioned his name, a look of fear passed over the Ranger’s face; he pulled the trigger, but only the cap exploded! Quick as a flash Glanton sprang up, a huge Bowie knife flashed in the candlelight, and the tall powerful young Ranger fell with a sickening thud to the floor a corpse, his neck cut half through. Glanton jumped over the table and placing one foot on his victim said,
>“Strangers! Do you wish to take up this fight? If so step out, if not we’ll drink.” As no one seemed disposed to accept the challenge, all hands went with him to the Bar and touched glasses with him. The warm body was carried out, sawdust was sprinkled over the bloodstained floor, Glanton carefully wiped his knife on the leather sleeve of his jacket, and matters in the Bexar Exchange resumed their usual course.
-from My Confession, by Samuel Chamberlain, a book which today is most known as the historical basis for Blod Meridian.

>>24708695
>takes place after the war ends
Yeah great rec retard

>>24707385
They didn’t annex more because a politician argued in the US Congress: if we do so, we are annexing too many brown Catholics.
They wanted Yucatán to add more slave states, so the northern states also argued against.

Texas was all about the prohibition of slavery in Mexico and the Texans not wanting to let go of their own slaves.


19th century Mexico is full of civil wars, whenever other nations invaded (USA, France, Spain, filibusters), the central government was usually also facing off a state governor making a play for independence or the presidency, and other state governors refusing to help defend the country.

>>24708630
No, its way WAY worse
>T. Mexican

>>24709492
No way. How?

>>24705458 (OP)
Basically a training ground for what became the American Civil War leadership of both sides; Sherman was the only significant general who pretty much missed it (he was stationed in California)
From Matamoros to Buena Vista there's Taylor's string of victories in the North; further South, there's Scott's string of victories from Buena Vista to Mexico City. Not much to it, really

>>24710022
*sub Vera Cruz for Buena Vista under Scott's 'string'