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Cabeza de Vaca was born into the Spanish nobility in 1490. Just a little of his early life is known, except that he made his career in the military.
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Coronado was born into a good family in Salamanca, Spain, in 1510. He came to the Americas at the age of twenty-five as an assistant to New Spain's first victory.
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He was born on November 21, 1643 and died on March 19, 1687. When Cavelier was younger he enjoyed science and nature. As a man, he studied with the Jesuit religious order and became a member after taking initial vows in 1660.
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Grant wqs born in Virginia and raised in southeastern Missouri, Stephen Fuller Austin is considered the founder of Anglo-American Texas. When he was 11, he went to school in Connecticut and graduated with distinction from Transylvania University in Kentucky.
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The Constitution in 1824 gave Mexico a republican form of government. The government failed, however, to define the rights of the states in the republic, including Texas.
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Stephen Fuller Austin was a hesitate revolutionary.Yet, he remained confident that an Anglo-American state could succeed within the boundaries of the Mexican nation.
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The Mexican authorities sent a force of about 100 men to repossess a cannon that had been provided the residents of Gonzales for defense against Indians.After a short fight, the Mexicans retreated, with one casualty, against no loss on the side of the Texans.
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The Runaway Scrape is the period in early 1836 generally beginning with the Siege and Fall of the Alamo and ending with the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21. It was a period of terror and panic among the settlements of Texas.
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Some 145 Texans in the area took refuge in the fortified grounds of an old mission known as the Alamo, under the joint command of William B. Travis (for the regular army) and Jim Bowie (for the volunteers). Over the following two weeks, the Mexican forces continually strengthened to over 2000 troops.
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The first town approached by Urrea was San Patricio, where on February 27 he encountered Frank Johnson and about 50 Texans. Johnson and four of his men escaped. A few days later, the Mexicans also fell upon James Grant and another 50 men, and all but one of the Texans were killed.
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On April 19, the Texans crossed over and marched down the right bank of Buffalo Bayou to within half a mile of its confluence with the San Jacinto River. Here, the army prepared their defenses on the edge of a grove of trees. Their rear was protected by timber and the bayou.
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U. S. President James Polk followed through on a campaign platform promising to annex Texas, and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States.
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Texas seceded from the Federal Union following a 171 to 6 vote by the Secession Convention. Governor Sam Houston was one of a small minority opposed to secession.
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About the same time in late 1862, Major General John B. Magruder was named Confederate commander of the District of Texas. Upon arriving in Houston, Magruder immediately began making plans to recapture Galveston.
