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Battle Of Gonzalez
Alcalde Andrew Ponton refused to give up the cannon. They burried the cannon and waited for the soliders return. The word was that the soldiers was gonna return and gonna take yhe cannon. -
constitution convention begins
Settlers who beonged to the war party urged the delegates to declare independence from Mexico. Those who were apart of peace party wanted to remain loyal to mexico. They meet at this time. -
Battle of San Antonio
Bowie and Burleston led the attack against San Antonio. It was known as "GRASS FIGHT." The battle of San Antonio also won by the TEXANS. -
Start Of The Siege Of Alamo
The Siege of Sarajevo is the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.[4] Serb forces of the Republika Srpska and the Yugoslav People's Army besieged Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 during the Bosnian War. -
Consultation Of 1835 Begins
The Consultation served as the provisional government of Mexican Texas from November 1835 through March 1836 during the Texas Revolution. Tensions rose in Texas during early 1835 as throughout Mexico federalists began to oppose the increasingly centralist policies of the government. In the summer, Texans elected delegates to a political convention to be held in Gonzales in mid-October. Weeks before the convention began, settlers took up arms against Mexican soldiers at the Battle of Gonzales. -
Texas Declaration Of Ind. Signed
In October 1835, settlers in Mexican Texas launched the Texas Revolution.
However, within Texas, many struggled with understanding what was the ultimate goal of the Revolution. Some believed that the goal should be total independence from Mexico, while others sought the reimplementation of the Mexican Constitution of 1824 (which offered greater freedoms than the centralist government declared in Mexico the prior year).[1] To settle the issue, a convention was called for March 1836. -
Battle Of The Alamo
The Mexicans first killed most of the Texans but Texans came back for revenge. They klled all the Mexican soliders. They left Santa Anna to live. They made Santa Anna go back to mexico and tell them that texas has independence. -
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Runaway Scrape
The Runaway Scrape was the name given to the flight and subsequent hostilities that occurred, as Texan, Tejano, and American settlers and militia encountered the pursuing Mexican army in early 1836.Settlers had fled their homes in Texas, after receiving reports of the Mexican Army, under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, gathering on the Rio Grande in preparation to invade and retake Texas. A large scale exodus occurred after a string of Texian battle losses. -
battle of coleto
On March 19, Fannin led his men on a leisurely retreat from Goliad. Mexican troops surrounded the Texians later in the day, before Fannin could reach the shelter of a grove of timber at Coleto Creek, some 400 yards (370 m) away. Texians formed a square in the middle of the prairie and attempted to defend their position. Although Mexican troops launched three separate attacks against the square, they could not penetrate the Texian position. -
Goliad Massare
The Mexican Army was led by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who had sent General José Urrea marching into Texas from Matamoros, making his way north by following the coast of Texas. On March 19, he had quickly advanced and surrounded the 300 men in the Texian Army on the open prairie, near La Bahia (Goliad). A two day Battle of Coleto ensued with the Texians holding their own on the first day. However, the Mexicans would receive overwhelming reinforcements and heavy artillery. -
battle of san jacinto
The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican forces in a fight that lasted just eighteen minutes. About 630 of the Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured, while only nine Texans died.
