For anyone wanting to read up on the topic, Steven L. Hardin’s work, “Texian Iliad” is an excellent place to start, an objective look at the whole war, good and bad....

https://www.abebooks.com/Texian-Ili...o4a2h8QIViLLICh0yJgBcEAQYASABEgLEfPD_BwE


"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744