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Marqués de Rubí
arrived at Veracruz as part of the expedition of Juan de Villabla, who had been sent to New Spain to organize regular army and colonial militia units.King Carlos III appointed Rubí inspector of frontier presidios and commissioned him to remedy economic abuses and other urgent matters. -
Philip Nolan
Planed with the govener of louisiana to travle to Texas and capture wild mustangs. The plane was approved but the spanish officials were suspicious. he was arrested in 1800. -
father Miguel Hidalgo
Arrested "native" spaniards and called the indians to mass. There he made a speech known as the Grito de Dolores. He said Mexico should be ruled by mexicans not saniards. -
Jose Gutierrtez de Lara
Gutierrez was sent by Hidalgo to recrute along the Rio Grande. After the capture of Hidalgo he continude his mission and went to Louisiana. Planed establishment of republican government in Texas. -
Constitution of 1824
to some degree, was patterned after the United States Constitution but resembled more the Spanish Constitution of 1812. Congress was made the final interpreter of the document; the Catholic religion was made the state faith; and the church was supported by the public treasury. -
Augustus Magee
Met two others and planed an invasion on Texas. Recruted a force and crossed the sabine river looting a convoy on the way. The force occupied the trinity river where he got sick and died. -
The Battle of Medina
between the republican forces of the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition under Gen. José Álvarez de Toledo y Dubois and a Spanish royalist army under Gen. Joaquín de Arredondo.Took place twenty miles south of San Antonio in a sandy oak forest region then called el encinal de Medina. Occurring during a very confused and turbulent period of world history due to conflicts between Mexico and Spain. -
Jean Lafitte
The Lafitte's were given money to start a rival base against d'Aury by the Spanish. Lafitte then turned against Spain and supported Mexico. d'Aury was run out of Galveston, and Lafitte took over. -
Dr. James Long
Joined United States army as a sergeon. He lead an expadition to conquer Texas.. He was sent to Mexico City to be exicuted. -
Federal Constitution of the United States of Mexico
This republican document called for a constitutional arrangement by which the national government would grant powers to the states. The document resembled the United States Constitution in several ways, but also borrowed tenets from the Spanish Constitution of 1812. -
State Colonization Law of 1825
After the fall of Iturbide, 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 basis of all colonization contracts affecting Texas except Austin's first contract. -
The Constitution of Coahuila and Texas
The constitution divided the state into three departments, of which Texas, as the District of Bexar, was one. The Catholic religion was made the state religion; citizens were guaranteed liberty, security, property, and equality; slavery was forbidden after promulgation of the constitution, and there could be no import of slaves after six months.