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Old 08-02-2016, 06:53 PM   #475
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8 View Post
Texas could have probably been its own country if it had wanted to. I think that Sam Houston & Davy Crockett & those guys wanted to join the U.S. It couldn't be a country now, of course, because Abraham Lincoln unilaterally decided that states can't withdraw from the Union, even if they joined voluntarily (no, I'm not an Abraham Lincoln fan).
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The Republic of Texas existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846. It was then admitted into the United States as the 28th state.
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