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Rubi, Marques de
Rubi was the high rank of feild marshall and knight commander in the order of Alcantara. Rubi began his inspection tour in New Mexico moved to Sonora and then traveled eastward Coahuila. He crossed the Rio Grande in July 1767 and proceeded to Son Louis de Las Amarillas Presidio by way Nueces River, where he visited failed missions at El Cano. Rubi's inspection of the Gulf of California to Lousiana lasted 23 months and he traveled 7,600 miles. -
Philip Nolan
He presented a plan to the Baron de Carondelet, governer of Louisiana to travel to Texas to capture mustangs and market them in Louisiana. He was arrested in 1800. The men then marched to Mexico, and there condemned for violations of Spanish law. As for Nolan he was credited as "making news" in the U.S. -
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Mexican Rebellion and Government
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Father Miguel Hidalgo
Father Miguel Hidalgo id known as the father of Mexican Independance because he led the first revolt against Spanish rule in Mexico Hidalgo, apriest from the biliage of Dolores by Guanajulto ordered the arrest of the native Spaniards in Dolores on September 16, 1810. Mexico didnt become independant fromSpain until 1812. -
Augustus Magee
After graduationg 3rd in his class from the United States military academy on January 23, 1809 he served under Gen. Magee, credited with being one of the best informed young officers in the U.S. army. Magee resigned from the U.S. army on June 22, 1812. In the middle of September, the force occupied Trinidad on the Trinity River, where Magee became seriously ill, either with consumption or malarial fever. -
Battle of Medina
The battle was fought in August 1813 between the repulican forces of the Gutierrez-Mage expedition under Gen.This was the bloodiest battle ever fought in history. With the force of Anglos, Tejanos, Indians and former royalist Toledo urdged by Tejanos. It was a furious four hour battle involving infantry, calvary and artillery, the republicans broke ranks and ran. -
Jean Lafitte
Laffitte was an agent for Spain. He turned against Spain and supported Mexico. The Lafitte's started to sucure secret storage places for their loot. Laffite brought in a captured galleon. -
Dr.James Long
He joined the United States army to serve as a surgeon in the war of 1812. Two years later the Adams-onis treaty aroused such strong opposition in Natchez that prominent citizens planned Filibursting expedition to conquer Texas and place Long in command. After the final surrender Long was imprisioned for a time in San Antonio and in Monterry, Vuevo Leon. On April 8, 1822 Long was shot and killed by Jose Felix. He was hired to shoot him. -
Constitution of 1824
Constitutional government in Texas began with Mexican federal resembled more the Spanish constitution of 1812. The president and vice president were elected for four-year terms by the legislative bodies of the states. The congress was composed of of two houses meeting anually from January 1, to April 15. Local affairs would be independent of the general government. -
Meger of Coahulia y Texas
The national colonization Law of August 18, 1824, which superseded the imperial colonization law, determined how Texas would be peopled. To worship according to the Christian religion, and to display sound moral principals and good conduct. In response to troubles in Texas, the centralists in Mexico city, who ousted the Federalists in late 1829 and espoused a strong central government patterned after the monarchist Spain of old, implemented the Law of April 6, 1830. -
State Constitution of 1825
Mexico adopted a federal system similar to that of the United States, and the federal congress passed the national colonization law on August 18, 1824. This law and the state law of Coahuila and Texas of March 25, 1825 became the basics of all colonization contracts affecting Texas. Congress agreed to make no major change in the policy of immagration before 1840 but reserved the right to stop immagration from particular nations in the interest of national security. -
State Constitution (Coahulia y Texas)
The legislature for the new Texas state was organized at Saltillo in August 1824. More than 2 years was spent on the framing of a constitution. Which was finally published on March 11, 1827. The Catholic religion was made the state religion; citizens were guaranteed liberty, property and equality; slavery was forbidden after promulgation of the consitiution. -
Jose Gutierrez de Lara
He married his cousin, Maria Josefa Uribe and became a merchant, blacksmith, and propety owner at Reilla. In October he left for Washington D.C, with letters of introduction from John Sibley and arrived on December 11, 1811. April 1812 the two men were in Natchitoches where the Guitierrez-Magee expidition assembled and set out for Texas.