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Marquis de Rubi's report and his recommandations
The Marques de Rubi was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1725. In 1764 he arrived in Veracruz, New Spain to organize regular army and colonial militin units. During 1766 and 1767, Rubi inspected the northern frontier from the Gulf of California to Louisiana. Rubi proposed that Spain reorganize its frontier defenses from the Gulf of California to the Guadalupe River in Texas. He also proposed the complete abandonment of east Texas and that only San Antonio and Santa Fe should be kept. -
Philip Nolan
Nolan came to Texas in 1790. He presented a plan to the Baron de Carondelet, governor of Luisiana, to travel to Texas to capture mustang, or wild horses, and market them in Louisiana. The plan was approved. For a nation that still moved by horsepower, the likelihood os successes for the venture was great. In about 1800 Nolan returned to Texas on another expedition and was killed in a fight with Spanish soldiers near present Waco, Texas. -
Jose Gutierrez de Lara
Mexican revonlutary and diplomat. In Washington, Gutierrez met Jose Alvarez de Toledo, and with him in Philadelphia in January 1812 made plans for the liberation of Texas and Mexico. In April 1812 the two men were in Natchitoches, where Gutierrez Magee Expedition assembled and set out for Texas. -
Augustus Magee
Augustus was army officer. Know as one of the best youngest officers in the US army. Between June 22, 1812, he made the acquaintance of Peter Samuel Davenport and later of Jose Bernardo Maximiliano Gutierrez de Lara, and the three of them were soon laying plans for an invasion in Texas, later know as the Gutierrez-Magge Expedition. After the forces occupited Trinidad in the Trinity River he became seriously ill, but he continued in actual command of the expedition until his death in Sep,1813. -
Battle of Medina
The bloodiest battle fought on August 18, 1813, on Texas soil that took 20 miles south of San Antonio in a sandy oak forest region then called El Encinal de Medina. This battle effected the destinies os Spain, Mexico, United States, England and France. -
Jean Lafitte
Jean Lafitte was a pirate that supported Spain against Maxico and turned against Spain, supporting Mexico. He took control of Galveston Island in 1817. In 1818 he was notified by President Monroe that the Island was considered part of the Louisiana Purchase and he should live. Lafitte left the Island in 1821 or 1822 when the schoover USS Enterprise was sent to Galvestone to demand him to leave. -
Dr. James Long
Dr James LOng was the leader of the Long Expedition. Shoot in April 8,1822, by a guard because he joined a Filibuster expedition to conquer Texas in 1819. -
Mexican Federal Contitution
Contitutional government in Texas began with the Mexican Federal constitution of 1824. They were required to separate executive, legislative, and judicial functions in their individual constitutions, which were to be in harmony with the national constitution, but local affairs were indenpendent of the general government. -
State Constitution ( Coahuila y Texas)
The constitutional of 1824 of the Republic of Mexico provided that each state in the republic should frame its own constitution. -
State Colonization Law
This law and the state of law of Coahuila y Texas of March 25, 1824, became the basis of all colonization contracts affectingTx except Austins first contarct. In effect, tha nation law surrended to the states authority to set up regulations to dispose of unappropriate lands within their limits for colonization, subject to prescribed limitations. -
Merger of Coahuila y Texas
The Mexican National Colonization Law of 1824, determined how Texas would be peopled. It stipulated that the colonization contracts should be make with the states instead of the federal goverment. So, a ampresario ( land contracter) should negociate with Saltillo, the capitol of Coahuila since Texas was merged with that state. -
Father Miquel Hidalgo
He is know as the father of Mexican independence because he led the first revolt against Spanish rule in Mexico.
