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Marquez de Rubi
He achived the high rank of field marshall and knight commander in the order of Alcantara, arrived at veracruz on November 1, 1764 as part of the expidition of Juan de Villabla who had been sent to New Spain to organize regular army and colonial milita units. On august 7th of the following year he was appointed inspetor of frontier presidios. Rubi went to Mexico City mid december 1765 and remained in the capital until March 1766. -
Philip Nolan
He came to Texas in the 1970's he presented a plan to the governor of Louisiana to travel to Texas to capture mustangs or wild horses, and market them in Lousiana. The plan was approved. Nolan and his troop made many trips to Texas. He spent a great deal of time exploring and making maps. He was arrested in 1800. He returned to Texas on another expidition and was klled in a fight with Spanish soldiers near Waco, Texas -
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Jose Gutierrez de Lara
He was a merchant, blacksmith, and property owner at Revilla. Gutierrez was sent by Hidalgo to recruit along the Rio Grande. He left Saltillo for the United States on March 7, 1811. In August 1811 he went to Natchitoches, Louisiana. In October he left for Washington D.C. with letters og introduction. During his stay he met the Mexican leader. -
Augustus Magee
Augustus Magee graduated third in his class from the United States Military Academy. Later on he made the acquaintance of Peter & Jose, and the three were soon laying plans for an invasion of Texas. In 1812 he resigned from the Army. 2 days later he crossed the Sabine River and was joined by Gutierrez and entered Nacogdoches. -
Battle of Medina
The battle was fought august 18, 1813, between the republican forces. This bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place twenty miles south of San Antonio in a sandy oak forest region called el encinal de Medina. This battle affected the destines of Spain, Mexico, the United States, England and France! -
Jean Lafitte
Lafitte had sailed in and taken over on May 14 1817. Lafitte was an agent for Spain. Lafittes was used against the pirates attacking. He was given money to start a rival base against the spanish but he turned against Spain and supported Mexico. -
Dr. James Long
Dr. James Long was the leader of the Long expedition in 1819 to conquer Texas. He went to Mexico City in March 1822 to plead his case for Agustin de Iturbide, but on April 8th 1822, he was shot and killed by a guard. -
Father Miguel Hidalgo
He is known as the father of Mexican Independence because he led the first revolt against spanish rule in Mexico. He is a preist from the village of Dolores. He made a speech to the town known as the Grito de Dolores where he called for a rebellion. In 1821 Mexico became independent from spain. -
Mexican Federal Constitution
Constitutional government in Texas began with the Mexican federal constitution pf 1824, which to some degree was patterned after the united states constitution but resembled more the Spanish constsitution of 1812 -
State Constitution
The constitution of 1824 of the republic of Mexico provided that each state in the republic should frame its own constitution. The state Coahuila and the formere Spanish province of Texas combined as the stae if Coahuila and Texas. The legislature for the new state was organized at Satilloin in August 1824. -
Merger of Coahuila y Texas
The national colonization law of August 18, 1824 determined how Texas would be peopled. It stipulated that those wishing colonization contract should make arrangements with the legislatures of individual states and not the federal government. They wrote the Federal Constitution of the United States of Mexico on October 4, 1824 -
State colonization Law
After the fall of Iturbide, Mexico adopted a federal system similar to that of the United States and the federal congress passed the national colonization low on August 1824. This law and the state law of Coahuila and Texas of March 25, 1825.
