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This treaty required France and Spain to officially give territory or their land, cede, to Britain. France gave up claims on Canada and east of the Mississipi River. Spain offered Florida.
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A list of recommendations issued by Marques de Rubi after observing the region's presidios. In the report, it states to befriend the comanche, replace Los Adaes with San Antonio as the captal, abandon all missions except for La Bahia and San Antonio's, and move the population of East Texas to San Antonio.
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At approximately 5:00 A.M., 700 British troops, their mission was to capture Patriot Leaders and their arsenals. As they marched into Lexington, 77 armed minutemen directed by Captain John Parker were waiting for them. After a brief battle, eight Americans lay dead or about to die and ten were wounded. Only a single British soldier was wounded.
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This statement regarded the thirteen American colonies as independent states, no longer part of the British empire.
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The United States gained independence as a republic.
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The revolution of the French begins.
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In 1800, Spain was forced by France to return Louisiana and France, in turn, sold it to the United States for $15 million dollars.
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Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (a priest in Delores, Mexico) rang a church bell and yelled for an end to the Spanish rule. He stated that they should defend their religion and rights.
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Flying a green flag, the Guitierrez-Magee expedition had a raid in Texas in August in the year of 1812. They captured Nacogdoches.
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A Spanish army directed by General Joaquin de Arredondo moved into Texas which came form the south. Two armies clashed close to Medina, which Arredondo won a descisive victory.
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He was one of the best known filibusters, who wanted Texas to be either a state or independent entirely. He and his army or 120 invaded Texas and captured Nacogdoches. He was later killed in 1821 by a Spanish soldier, while waiting for a trial after he was forced to surrender.
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The panic was America's first great economic crisis.
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Mexico, which included Texas, won its independence from Spain.
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This law of Mexico allowed an empresario to recieve a land grant within the Mexican province of Texas.
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One of the states under the brand-newly established United Mexican States in its 1824 constitution.
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This new constitution named itself the United Mexican States, a federal republic, and defined its official religion as Catholic.
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This term is used to refer to the land grants of first colonists of Stephen F. Austin's first colony. There were actually only 297 land grants.
