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The Fredonian Rebellion was a dispute between the Mexican government and the Edwards brothers, Haden and Benjamin. Haden Edwards received his empresarial grant and Edwards's grant was located in a difficult part of the country. To the east was neutril ground
inhabited mostly by fugitives; to the north and west were Indians; to the south was Austin's colony; and in Nacogdoches itself were
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In his report on the commission, Mier y Terán recommended that strong measures be taken to stop the United States from acquiring Texas. He suggested additional garrisons surrounding the settlements, closer trade ties with Mexico, and the encouragement of more Mexican and European settlers.
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The law came as a result of the warning and communications of Manuel de Mier y Terán, who made fourteen recommendations.
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uprisings of settlers in and around Anahuac, Texas in 1832 and 1835, helped to precipitate the Texas Revolution. This eventually led to the territory's.
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On June 12, 1832, Anglo-American settlers opposed to the rule of Mexican commander John Davis Bradburn fled from Anahuac north to the crossing on Turtle Bayou near James Taylor White's ranchhouse.
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met at San Felipe on April 1 as a successor to the Convention of 1833, to which San Fernando de Béxar.
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Austin was arrested at Saltillo in January, under suspicion of trying to incite insurrection in Texas, and taken back to Mexico City. No charges were made against him, no court would accept jurisdiction of his case, and he remained a prisoner, shifting from prison to prison, until December 1834, when he was released on bond and limited to the area of the Federal District.
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Santa Anna instructed one of his general to use force if necessary but to avoid open conflict if possible. The company rode out of San Antonio de Béxar.
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The siege and the final assault on the Alamo in 1836 constitute the most celebrated military engagement in Texas history. The battle was conspicuous for the large number of illustrious personalities among its combatants.
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The term Runaway Scrape was the name Texans applied to the flight from their homes when Antonio López de Santa Anna began his attempted conquest of Texas in February 1836.
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The Convention of 1836 wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, organized the ad interim government, and named Sam Houston commander in chief of the military forces of the republic.
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The battle of San Jacinto was the concluding military event of the Texas Revolution. On March 13, 1836, the revolutionary army at Gonzales began to retreat eastward.
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Two treaties were signed by ad interim president David G. Burnet and Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna at Velasco on May 14, 1836, after defeat of the Mexican forces at the battle of San Jacinto.
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The Goliad Massacre, the tragic termination of the Goliad Campaign of 1836, is of all the episodes of the Texas Revolution the most infamous.
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On December 13, 1841, she sailed once more for the Bay of Campeche to cooperate with the rebellious Mexican state of Yucatán. The San Antonio, with the San Bernard and Moore's flagship Austin, reached Sisal on January 6, 1842, but on January 31 she was returned to Galveston with dispatches from Moore, while the remaining two Texas ships cruised the Mexican coast in
search of prizes.
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