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Cabeza de Vaca a ship wreck on what is known today as Galveston. After trading in the region for six years, he later explored the Texas interior on his way to Mexico.
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In search of the f Seven Cities of Cibola, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado lead an edventure into the southwestern United States and across northern Texas.
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Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle made Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay, and then formed the basis for France's take to Texas. Two years later, LaSalle was killed by his own men.
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Mexican authorities were less certain. Alarmed by the numbers of former Americans migrating to Texas and rumors the U.S. intended to worry the region, the Mexican government began to limit immigration in 1830.
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On September 16, 1810, a priest named Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla became the father of Mexican independence with a historic offer urging Mexicans to take up arms against the Spanish government.
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In 1813, at the age of 21 years, he was elected to the territorial Legislature of Missouri, and was again elected to that position each year until 1819.
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About the middle of September, 1835, General Cos landed at Matagorda, with five hundred Mexican troops, and proceeded on his way to Bexar. On his arrival in Texas, active operations commenced.
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The period roughly between the fall of the Alamo, and the Victory at San Jacinto is known as "The Runaway Scrape." .
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the massacre garnered support for the cause against Mexico both within Texas and in the United States,they were contributing greatly to the Texan victory at the battle of San Jacinto.
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Following the Battle of the Alamo, Santa Anna, with more than more than seven hundred men, was in hot pursuit of Sam Houston and the Texas Army.
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The Texans who voted to leave the Union did this over the disbelife of their governor, Sam Houston. A Houston's election in 1859 as governor seemed to say that Texas did not share the rising secessionist sentiments of the other Southern states.
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As part of the Union blockade of the Texas coast, Commander William B. Renshaw led his group of eight ships into Galveston harbor to demand surrender of the most important Texas port on October 4, 1862.
