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Alonso Pineda was a Spanish Explorer; his ship, Cabeza de Vaca, shipwrecked on "Galveston Island" (it wasn't called that back then).
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Francesco Coronado leads an expedition into the southern "USA" in search of finding the seven lost cities of Cibola.
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Stephen F. Austin was given a thousand dollars from the Mexican Government and started colonizing near the Brazos River.
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Mexico became a Republican government, but sadly it failed to define the rights of that states within the country, including Texas.
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The mexicans improsend Stephen F Austin. they did this act to make the tension greater for the two sides.
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At the battle of Gonzales, Texas psuhed back the dtachment of livestock from Mexico. That was the start of the revolution. This was also the placewhere the famous words took place, "Come and take it"
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Texans was under Col. William B. Travis were very tiredafter the two week seige that the Mexican Army held a the Battle at the Alamo where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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James Fannin and 400 Texans were killed by Santa Anna at the Massacre at Goliad.
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Sam Houston is controlling Texas as they routed the mexican forces under Santa Annas control at the battle of San Jacinto. There in one of the most decisive battles in history, independence had won.
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James Polk, US president, led a campaign promising to annex Texas and sign legislation that made Texas officially the 28th state of the USA.
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Texas secedes from ths US becuase of a landslide vote by the Secession Convention. SAm Houston, Governer, was one of the few who did not want to secede,
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Texas's most important seaport became there's again after a Short battle at sea
