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When the Comanches and Texas Government start to talk peace, it turns into a fight at the Council House in San Antonio.
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Was the most penetrating Comanche challenge.
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The Battle of Plumb Creek sees the white men beat the Comanches. This pushed the Indians farther west.
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This is where Texans were forced to march two thousand miles from Santa Fe to prison in Mexico City.
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Robert Potter was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, he was murdered on this date in the Regulator-Moderator War.
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San Antonio was captured by fourteen thousand Mexicans under control of Adrian Woll. They retreated with prisoners.
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Forty two people are massacred by Indians in the Battle of Salado Creek.
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Sam Houston ordered the beginning of the Somervell Expediton. This followed the Mexican raids in San Antonio.
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The expedition departed from San Antonio on this date.
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The expedition captured Laredo on this date.
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The Mier Expedition surrendered in Mier.
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William Fisher and the main forces of Texans, crossed the Rio Grande and occupied the town of Mier without opposition.
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Sam Houston sent officials to Austin to remove the records of the Republic of Texas in Houston. The Archives War began.
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Some Austin citizen's keep the papers from being moved to Houston.
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Seventeen Texans were executed.
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The Texan's Snivley Expedition reached the Santa Fe Trail, thinking they would capture and take some Mexican wagons crossing the territory that Texas has claimed.
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President Houston calls to the militia to put down the Regulator-Moderator War.
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Baylor University is founded.
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Prince Carl purchased the land now called New Braunfels.
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Anson Jones held the Convention of 1845 to consider the annexing of Texas to the United States.
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President of the United States, James Polk, followed on a campaign promising to annex Texas. He also signed a legislation that made Texas the twenty eighth state.
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The Republic of Texas is officialy at an end.
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The outcome of the Mexican-American War fixed Texas' boundary on the Rio Grande River.
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The Battle of Palo Alto was one of the first major fights in the Mexican War, this resulted in a U.S. win.
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Winfield Scott and Santa Anna fought at Sierra Gorda, the American Victors stole Santa Anna's leg.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, this ended the Mexican-American War.
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Fort Worth is founded.
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William Samson became the first prisoner to be sent to the Huntsville State Prison.
