William Barret Travis was a soldier who served as Texas commander at the Battle of the Alamo in Texas where Texans launch a war for independence against Mexico in 1836.
The quote by Travis means that the life of an hour in which everyone knows one's identity for something achieved and appreciated is more worthy than a long life in which nobody knows who you are.
Therefore, the solider was glad that his name is known in the country book of history.
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Mexico at first did not allow the people of Texas to own slaves. After winning independence and however, Texas allowed slavery. Once slavery was allowed, after a few years of independence, texas asked to enter the US as a slave state.
So Texas went from a territory of Mexico that had slavery banned to a state in the US with slavery (after independence)
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The group that benefited the most from gaining independence from Mexico are the Tejanos who were the former Americans and has now become the American citizens and had claimed for the American rights and privileges.
