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The mexican captain, Cabeza de Vaca, became shipwrecked on modern day galveston. He had been trading here for 6 years.
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was searching for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola when he led an expedition to what we now call the southwestern US and northern Texas.
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Robert Cavelier(la salle) established Fort St. Louis in Matagorda Bay. he helped create the base for France's clain to Texas. Robert was murdered by his own men two years later.
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The Mexican government gave Stephen f Austin a grant and he used it to began colonization in the region of the Brazos River.
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Mexico created a constitution that gave it a republican government to define the rights of the states within the republic, including Texas but it failed.
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The mexican government imprisones Stephen f Austin.
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The Texans repelled part of the Mexican calvalry at this battle begining the revolution.
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This period in early 1836 begining at the battle of the Alamo.
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In San Antonio, texans under Col. William b Travis were overwhelmed by the mexicans two week siege at this battle.
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400 texans and James Fannin,under the order of Santa Anna, were executed.
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The mexican forces of Santa Anna were routed by the texans under Sam Houston. Independece was finally won.
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Texas becomes the 28th state in the U.S. after the president James Polk followed through on his campaign to add texas to the U.S.
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The secession convention of Texas votes 171 to 6 declaring them part of the Confederacy. General Sam Houston was against the secession.
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The cotton clads sailed into galveston to reclaim it from Renshaw.
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After the several weeks of federal occupation in Texas' main port they reclamed it from Renshaw.
