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Texas Revolution
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Battke of Gonzales
The Batlle of Gonazales was the first battle of the Texas Revolution. It was fought near Gonzales,Texas. It concerned with the Texans and the Mexicans. -
Connsultation of 1835
A meeting of representetives of variouse districs of texas was planned to fall. The Consulation reconvened on November 4. -
Seige of San Antonio
In October-December of 1835, rebellious Texans laid siege to the city of San Antonio de Béxar, the largest Mexican town in Texas. After about a month and a half of siege, the Texians attacked in early December and accepted the Mexican surrender on December 9. -
The Siege of the Alamo
The siege of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) describes the first twelve days of the Battle of the Alamo. On February 23, Mexican troops entered San Antonio de Bexar, Texas and surrounded the Alamo Mission. The siege ended when the Mexican Army launched an early-morning assault on March 6. -
Convention of 1836
The Convention of 1836 wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, organized the ad interim government, and named Sam Houston commander in chief of the military forces of the republic. The call for the convention to meet at Washington-on-the-Brazos -
The Signing of The Texas Declaration of Independence
In the signing of the declaration, the republic was trying to make Texas independent state. March 2, 1836, the delegates solemnly declared the political connection of Texas with Mexico for ever at an end, and, as the representatives of the people of Texas, constituted her a free, sovereign, and INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC, fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations -
Battle of the Alamo
After losing San Antonio to the Texans during the Siege of Bexar, Mexican General Santa Anna determined to retake this key location and at the same time impress upon the Texans the futility of further resistance to Mexican rule With these goals, the vanguard of Santa Anna's army arrived in San Antonio about 23 February 1836. Some 145 Texans in the area took refuge in the fortified grounds of an old mission known as the Alamo, -
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.
The runaway scrape was lead by Sam Houston, -
Battle of Coleto Creek
The battle of Coleto occurred near Coleto Creek in Goliad County on March 19 and 20, 1836.
The Texas Texas commander was James W. Fannin, Jr.
There was yet another defeat of Texas forces. -
The Goliad Massacure
On March 27, 1836, over three hundred rebellious Texan prisoners, most of them captured a few days before while battling the Mexican army, were executed by Mexican forces.The "Goliad Massacre" became a rallying cry for other Texans, who shouted "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!" at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto. -
Batlle Of SanJacinto
The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 20, 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.
