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Fransisco Vasquez de Cornado went to search for treasure with nearly 1,000 men. But after months came back with nothing. But after he got back to Mexico, he became city councilman until he died on September 22, 1554.
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Well know explorer and fur trader in canada, Rene Robert cavelier, Sieur de Salle came to the US. Then when he left on a boat, he missed his target and ended up in Matagorda Bay, Texas. Where he founded Fort Sumter.
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Mexico gains independence.
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Stephen F. Austin was arrested because he was accused of trying to take over the Mexican govement. but he wasnt. He was innocent, but the Mexicans didnt believe it. So they put him in Jail.
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100 Mexican soilders were sent to retrieve a cannon and the Texans loaded it with scrap metal and fired. It was the start of the Texas Revolution.
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On Feburary 23, 1836, The Battle at the Alamo started. The Mexicam army had 2000 soilders, and the Texan army only had 189. On March 6th, 1836, all of the Texan soilders were dead.
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Texans heard that the mexican army was heading eastward and they gather personal items and abandoned their homes and headed east. Many people died from the rough conditions. The headed back home once the heard the news that Texas won at the battle of San Jacinto.
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ON March 20th the Texas prisoners were taken to Goliad. And Santa Anna ordered them to be executed. they were divied into 3 groups and executed.
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On April 21Sam Houston lead an army of about 750 men. Santa Anna had about 1500 men. Texas won. They killed 700 mexicans and 750 taken in as prisoners.
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Texas joins the United States.
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Texas wanted to keep slavery so it seceded from the US and went to the confederacy. This happened on Feburary 1st 1861.
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On New Years Day, Galveston was recaptured. 26 confederates died and 117 wouned. 400 men were captured.
