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Santa Anna ordered his men to take no prisoners and only a small handful of the Texans were spared.
a lot is going to change like for example From the Civil War to the end of the century lumbering and flour and grist milling were the leading industries, except that cottonseed crushing supplanted flour and grist milling in second rank, according to the census of 1900. i think this because there was a lot that off things they didn't have before that they have now.
It was used in very minimal amounts during the war however if it saw widespread use it would drastically turn the tide of the war in favor for the beholder of that weapon
What do you mean colonies? You mean the 13 colonies?