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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 3 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 1 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 3 1 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Texas, (search)
exas. Texas was a part of the Spanish province of Mexico which had declared itself independent of Spain. In 1824, when a considerable number of colonists from the United States were there, the Mexican government united Coahuila, previously a separate state, with Texas, and placed a Mexican as governor over the united states. He treated the Americans there with great injustice, and some of them, engaged in a revolution, were compelled to retreat into the United States in 1827. In 1830 Bustamente, who had made himself dictator of Mexico, issued a decree forbidding the people of the United States to enter Texas as colonists. The American settlers in Texas then numbered about 20,000, and in 1833 they held a convention, determined to separate Texas from Coahuila, prepared a State constitution, and requested Santa Ana, then at the head of the government of Mexico, to admit them as a separate State of the republic. Col. Stephen F. Austin (q. v.), representing the American colonists, w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
and the American settlers, known as Fredonians, evacuate Nacogdoches and cross the Sabine, before Mexicans under Ahumada......Jan. 31, 1827 Constitution for the State of Coahuila and Texas framed by a State congress at Saltillo, proclaimed......March 11, 1827 Battle of Nacogdoches; Texans under Col. Hayden Edwards defeat the Mexicans under Colonel Piedras......Aug. 2, 1827 Treaty of limits concluded between the United States and United Mexican States......Jan. 12, 1828 Vice-President Bustamente, succeeding Guerrero, deposed, by decree prohibits further immigration from the United States......April 6, 1830 Colonization laws repealed as to natives of the United States......April 28, 1832 Fort of Velasco at the mouth of the Brazos taken by Texans under John Austin......June 26, 1832 Nacogdoches retaken by Texans......Aug. 2, 1832 First step towards independence, the framing of a State constitution, never recognized by the Mexican government and never put in opera