"Les révolutions sont les changements tentés ou réalisés par la force dans la constitution des sociétes..."

Arthur Bauer in 1908.

Quoted by Andreas V. Reichstein.

'Ole Dennis' personal spin - translation is:

"Revolutions are the changes attempted or carried out by force within the political fabric of pre - existing societies..."

Texas vs Mexico 1835 - 1836

A War of Independence or a Revolution??!!

More snippets, these from pages 193 - 194, found in Andreas W. Reichstein's Rise of the Lone Star ...

"With this sentence Arthur Bauer in 1908 defined revolution as social change by means of force..

"As handy as this definition sounds, it in turn raises a number of questions.

"What is change?

"What is force?

"What is society?

"[T]he thrust of the struggle of the Texas was not at all aimed at a change in the political system in Mexico or in Texas as a part of Mexico but at separation.

"No one wanted to change anything in Mexico itself.

"They were not turning against an oppressive system of government but rather against cohabitation with and in a foreign nation.

"[I]t was not at all the aim of the Texans to create a liberal Mexico or to make social change but to annex themselves to the United States.

"If the concept of Texas Revolution is to be kept as a term, it must be firmly established here that in the scholarly sense there was no revolution in Texas ..."

Interesting point of view, huh??!! :)