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Stephen Austin
He was born at the lead mines in southwestern Virgina on November 3, 1793. Stephen was a lawyer, settler and administrator who played a key role in the secession of Texas from Mexico. He brought hundreds of families into Texas on behalf of the Mexican government, which wished to populate the isolated northern state. Austin’s planned settlement of Texas hit many snags between 1821 and 1830, which was the fact that Mexico achieved independence in 1821 -
Texas's Old Three Hundred
The Texas Old Three Hundred refers to the recieved the land grants as part of Stephen Austin's first colonial contract in Mexican Texas. -
Land Grants
Mexico offered enormous land grants to agents, who were called empresarios. A land grant is a grant of public land given to a specific group of people. -
Goliad
The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. In the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835, rebellious Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad. -
Battle of Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar. -
Houston becomes president
Houston and his men defeated Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna at San Jacinto to secure Texan independence. He was voted president in 1836 and again in 1841, then served as a senator after Texas became a state in 1845. -
Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution began when colonists in the mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Battle of San Jacinto
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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 army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. -
Texas joins the union
