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Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked in Galveston Island, while it was on its way to trade in Mexico.
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Francisco Vasques de Cornado, was leading an exibition to find the faded sevon cities of Cibalo.
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Robert Cavieler, Sieur de La Salle established Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay.
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Stephen F. Austin established the fleading Texas community on the lower reaches of Colorado and the Brazos River.
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Stephen F. Austin received a grant from the Mexican Govornment and began colonizing in the region of the Brazos River.
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when they founded the new costitution, the colonial leaders told Austin to travel to Mexico and Tell the president their new demands, but Santa Anna refused and had him thrown in jail.
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The revilution began with a battle in Mexico called The Battle of Gonzales.
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texans were overwhelmed my the Mexican army after a two weeks sege at the Battle of Th Alamo.
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Santa Anna and the Mexican armies swept from San Antonio , vertually unopposed.
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Almost 400 Texans were exicuted by Mexicans under the order of Santa Anna.
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Texans under Sam Houston routed the Mexican forces of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. Thus, independence was won in one of the most decisive battles in history.
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President James Folk sighned legislation, making Texas the twenty-eighth state of the U.S.
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Texas seceded from the Fediral Union with a 171- vote twards secestion, six people were agenst it including Sam Houston.
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After sevral weeks of Federal occupation, the Battle of Galveston restored the to Texas for the rest of the Civil War.