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La Salle built a colony for France.
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Stephan F Austin starts to settle on the Brazos river
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Mexico forbids any more emmigration to Texas.
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Texans causethe mexicans cavalry at the Battle of Gonzales. The revolution began.
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Jim Bowie,and James Fannin 90 texans defeat 450 mexicans and at the Battle of Concepcion, near San Antonio.
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Gen. Cos surrendered San Antonio to the Texans. Unfortunatly Ben Milam was killed during the extended siege.
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Texans, under Col. William B. Travis, after the two week siege at the Alamo were finally overshelmed and the runaway scrape began.
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Texans under Sam Houston surprised the Mexicans and won their independence
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Texas succeeds from the Union
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A constitution was drafted and on February 9 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected president of the new federal republic thus brought into being.
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They then replaced their governor, Sam Houston,because he refused to pledge loyalty to the confederacy.
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Confederate forces fired on the fort. Two days later Fort Sumter was surrendered to the Confederacy.
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President Lincoln issued a call for volunteers to "preserve the Union" by force of arms.
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Brig.-Gen. P. 0. Hebert was placed in command of the military department of Texas by the Confederate government, and some of his measures caused much resentment among the people.
