re: How exciting will be the Texas’ Secession

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Maybe the French again.

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Don't forget the Spanish. The Spanish provided a lot more help thru Florida than they get credit for. Spanish supporters of the cause created a secret trading company, that the French used too, in one of their Caribbean islands to get military supplies to Colonists up thru Florida.

Heck for a LA tie...its said that the name "The United States of America" came from a Spanish LA Governor, who was apart of the assistance and who wrote a friendly letter to Gen Washington, I think congratulating him on a victory, and described the country as that in Spanish, and Washington enjoyed the phrase so much he dropped the whole "Colonies" thing and started to call the new country that.