Jack of Harts

The Southern Border of the United States of America was formed by war and rebellion. The Spanish first colonized Central and North America long before the United States moved westward. They moved up to the Rio Grande River area, to Santa Fe, and up the California coast. There they met the Russian Empire going south through Alaska and didn’t go much further. They claimed regions further north but couldn’t control them. The Indians did not agree that the Spanish owned the territory and made war on the settlers that tried to go north of the Rio Grande. The Spanish needed heavily armed settlers willing to fight to defend their land and a group of Americans who wanted to build a new life outside the United States of America swore loyalty to the Spanish Crown in exchange for being allowed to settle there. They became what history calls the Texians, and they and the Indians had a great many disagreements over who owned the land in the decades that followed. And then the Spanish colony rebelled from Spain to form the precursor of modern day Mexico. That changed everything.