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A group of Natives attack Fort Parker, kidnappin Cynthia Ann Parker and five others. Cynthia grew up with the Natives.
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After the Texas Revolution, Sam Houston was sworn in as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
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William H.Wharton and Memucan Hunt show President Jackson that the Texas govenment is responsible, so Jackson officialy recognizes Texas as an independent nation
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Mirabeau B. Lamar was chosen to replace Sam Houston as the president of Texas. He was previously Sam Houston's vice president.
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President Lamar holds a peace conference with the Comanche in San Antonio. It ended up with seven dead Texans and thirty-five dead Comanche.
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Near Lockheart, Texas at Plum Creek, Texans push the Comanche farther to the West.
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President Mirabeau Lamar sent an expedition to gain control of Santa Fe, led by Jose Navarro. The expedition failed because Mexican troops intecepted the group of Texans and captured them. Navarro and his group were released from Mexican prison in 1844.
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Sam Houston takes his second term in office.
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President Houston had wanted to move the archives in Austin to Houston (In case Austin was attacked). Vigalantes, who feared the capital would be moved to Houston, intercepted the archives and they were sent back to Austin.
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The prisoners of the Mier expedition were forced to draw beans from a bowl. The people who drew white beans were safe, but the seventeen people who drew black beans were executed by the orders of Santa Anna.
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Anson Jones was voted the fourth and final president of Texas.
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From 1845 to 1846, over five thousand German colonists arrived in Texas.
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On this date, Texas was annexated into the United States and became the twenty-eighth state.
