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Marques de Rubi
Rubi wrote a report on how presidios should be apart from the actual mission, and that East Texas should be abandoned. On Sept 10, 1772, his report was approved. -
Jose Gutierrez de Lara
He married his cousin and became a Merchant Blacksmith Land Owner. He was sent by Hidalgo to recruit along the Rio Grande. -
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Augustus Magee
Augustus Magee graduated the third in his class. He went on to be a soldier and resigned after his commanding officer recommended a promotion, but the higher authorities refused it. He formed an expedition, but later died due to either consumption or Malaria. -
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Philip Nolan
Philip Nolan came up with the idea to capture horses in Texas and sell them in Louisiana. Many people began to suspect him after he was meeting up with Wilkin too much. He was then shot in a fight when trying to visit Waco, Texas. -
Dr. James Long
Dr. James Long was a surgeon that served in the War of 1812. He was placed in command of an expedition to conquer Texas, and after he surrendered, he was jailed. He pleaded guilty in front of the judge, but he was later shot by what seemed an accident, but may have been an assasination. -
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Father Hidalgo
Led first revolt against Spanish in Mexico. He is a key person in the independence of Mexico from Spain. -
Battle of Medina
This was a war fought by the Magee expedition and a spanish royalist army. The Magee expedition was destroyed in battle: less than 100 were able to escape. -
Lafitte
Lafitte was a man who sailed under the flags of Mexico and conquered parts of Texas. -
Constitution of 1824
The Mexican Constitution is almost exactly like the American Constitution, using the same democratic system. -
Merger of Coahuila and Texas
The merger was a contract made to attract people to settle in Texas. The contract stated that each family could have a large amount of space in return for a nominal amount of money and a pledge that they would abide to the Mexican Government's rules. By the 1820s, the government revoked the contract because too many people were violating the pledge that they had made, -
State Colonization Law of 1825
The state colonization law was established on 1825. The law said that no property could be granted within 20 leagues of an international boundary or within 10 leagues of the coast without permission from the federal executive authority. -
Constitution of Coahuila and Texas
The Mexican government required each state to frame its own Constitution, which was published on March 11, 1827. The constitution made Catholicism the state religion, and guaranteed liberty, security, property, and equality. Slavery was also forbidden and the import of slaves would be forbidden as well withing 6 months,
