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Stephen Fuller Austin was an American empresario born in Virginia and raised in southeastern Missouri.
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austin had issued 297 land grants to the group that laterbecame known as Texas's Old Three Hundred.
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Tracts of land granted to settlers, known as empresarios, by Mexico to encourage settlement in Texas while it was part of Mexico.
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several rebillions erupted, including what would eventually become known as the texas revoloution
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the texans attacked. they drove the mexican forces from the alamo
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santa annas troops executed 300 rebels at golaid
