Why did they fight at the alamo?
The first Americans that arrived to settle Texas came under a contract that was agreed to by the Spanish. Moses Austin had arranged the agreement whereby, 300 American families, mostly from Missouri, could move into East Texas but he died before the settlers arrived. At about the same time, Mexico gained it’s independence from Spain. Moses’ son Stephen Austin convinced the new Mexican government to honor the Spanish contract. The Mexicans allowed the settlers to enter Texas as long as they renounced their Protestant beliefs, joined the catholic church and swore themselves to be loyal Mexican subjects. This may appear to have been a foolish agreement on Mexico’s part, but at the time they had no real control over the area which was crawling with Apache and Comanche indians and another group of Americans who were pretty much pirates had already needed to be driven out of coastal East Texas by force. Many of the Americans who were living in the lower Mississippi at that time felt that Tex
