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Spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda mapped the Texas coastline. He was left behind with his crew and mother. When Diego de Camargo came to get them they were being attacked by a tribe. Alonso and his mother were dead but he got some of the colonist out.
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Alvar NunezCabeza de Vaca's ship wrecked near Galveston to begin an exploration.The explorers called it the Malhado, or the island of doom. They were enslaved for a few years by Native American tribes.
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Francisco Vasquez de Coranado crosses the Texas Panhandle in search of the seven cities of Cibola. He had mistaken the cities as something else. He was being lied to.
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Francisco Vasquez De Coranado died September 22,1554. He was killed by Indians. He died in Mexico City.
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A delegation of about fifty Jumano men visited the Pueblo of San Antoni de Istela where Estavan de Perea was staying.THey wanted to ask for friars . They were questioned as to why they were making this demand.
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Corpus Christi de la Isleta, is established miles away from El Paso. Indians donated the land for this mission.The Tigua built a permanent structure.
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Rene-Robert Canvelier was looking for the mouth of Mississippi river. By mistake he landed in Texas. He established a colony called Fort St.Louis , on Garcitas creek in Victoria County.
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La Salle was taken captive by Pierre Duhaut. La Salle is killed by several of his own men. While five children are taken captive.
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The colonist were felled by Indians, diseases, poisonous snakes and malnutrition.They are finished off by Karankowa Indians. They took a few children captive.
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Alonso's expedition finds the remains of Fort St. Louis. He fears the French will the spanish territory. The spanish begin establishing settlements and missions.
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First East Texas Mission was in construction in San Francisco de los Tejas near Weches, Houston. Small pox in the winter killed about 3,300 people. The mission was closed 1993.
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The Presidio Nuestra Senora de Loreto de la Bahia, known as Presidio La Bahia, or La Bahia. It was a fort constructed by the Spanish Army that became the city of Goliad, Texas. It was originally founded in 1721 on the ruins of the failed French Fort Saint Louis.
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The Alamo, was originally known as Mission San Antonio de Valero. It was a former Roman Catholic mission.The mission introduced European livestock, fruits, vegetables, and industry into the Texas region.
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The church at this Mission was known as the "Queen of the Missions," It was constructed between 1768 and 1782. It is the second church of the Mission, it was founded in 1720.
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San Antonio are producing thousands of pounds of cotton anually.Cotton was first grown in Texas by Spanish missionaries. In 1852 Texas was in eighth place among the top ten cotton-producing states of the nation.
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This Spanish fort was established in 1751 to protect Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba. As Indians grew bigger the presidio's commander had the missionaries to abandon their effort. They refused, and on Mar. 16, 1758 indians overan,and killed many.
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Galveston is struck by a hurricane which washes five treasure ships ashore. The storm produces a storm surge of around 7 feet. It causes flooding near the coastline. A mission on the lower Trinity River is destroyed.
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He was a spanish trader as the leader of the settlers, and in the spring of 1779, he led a group back to Nacogdoches. Later that summer, Nacogdoches ridentified Mexico as a pueblo, or town, making it the first town in Texas. Y'Barbo, as lieutenant governor of the new town, established the rules and laws for the local government.
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He never took his priestly vows too seriously. He fathered two daughters out of wedlock, read the anti-clerical works of the French Encyclopedic philosophers and seemed to regard the Church as a sinecure which would provide him with a regular income.
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Gutierrez gained the support of Augustus W. Magee and formed a force of about 130 men at Nachitoches, Louisiana. The men then crossed into Texas, where their number went to 300. The Spanish governor, Manuel María de Salcedo, met the revolutionaries at La Bahia with about 800 men.
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Moses Austin was a development of the American lead industry and the father of Stephen F. Austin, a pioneer settler of Texas. He was the first to obtain permission for Anglo Americans to settle in Spanish Texas. He also established the first Anglo-American settlement west of the Mississippi River.
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In April 1823, Austin induced the congress to grant him a contract to bring 300 families into Texas. He wanted honest, hard-working, people who would make the colony a huge success. The congress passed a new immigration law
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The Fredonian Rebellion was a dispute between the Mexican government and the Edwards brothers, Haden Edwards received his empresarial grant on April 14, 1825. It entitled him to settle as many as 800 families in an area around Nacogdoches in eastern Texas.Edwards's grant was located in a difficult part of the country.
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The Fredonian Rebellion was the first attempt by Anglo settlers in Texas to secede from Mexico. The settlers, led by empresario Haden Edwards, declared independence from Mexican Texas and created the Republic of Fredonia near Nacogdoches, Texas. The land the Mexican government had granted to Edwards in 1825 included areas that had been previously settled.
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The Irish move to Texas for a chance of opportunity and land. The land in the West was cheaper and less exspensive sometime even free. Western States attracted large numbers of immigrants.
