skepticalbip
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It also helped the Texans that the Mexican army was spread across Mexico putting down rebellions from Yucatan to Alta California and quite a few states in between. If the full Mexican army had been available to put down the rebellion in Texas then it would have been a very different story. Santa Anna's army in Texas has been estimated to be somewhere from 1,500 to 6,000 but if all the other states rebelling hadn't required attention then he could have had an army of many tens of thousands to put down the Texas rebellion.... snip ...
Whether the Battle of the Alamo was critical to the defeat of Santa Ana, or not, is difficult to gauge. Beside the fact that Santa Ana greatly underestimated his opponents, it was the slow pace of his army and poor choice of ground, which led to the Texan victory.