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Stephen F. Austin - Wikipedia  Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793  December 27, 1836) was an American empresario ... Though Austin was reluctant to carry on his father's Texas venture, he was ... In December 1821, the first U.S. colonists crossed into the granted territory by land ... Genevieve, Missouri, sought to establish Freemasonry in Texas.
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ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIZATION | The Handbook of Texas ...  Jun 9, 2010 ... Spain had first opened Texas to Anglo-Americans in 1820, less than one year before ... in 1821 by granting contracts to empresarios who would settle and ... area along the lower Colorado River, where he hoped to establish a port. ..... In December 1826 he received a contract to settle 300 families in the...
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Texas 1821-1836 < Anglo-American colonization in Texas - Kjetil ...  In eastern Texas during the first half of the eighteenth century, French traders from ... At the same time, Indians thwarted efforts to establish catholic missions. ... Between 1821 and 1836 an estimated 38,000 settlers, on promise of 4,000 acres...
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Moses Austin asks Spanish for Texas colony - Dec 26, 1820 ...  On this day in History, Moses Austin asks Spanish for Texas colony on Dec 26, 1820. ... with the Spanish and try to establish an American colony in Texas. ... as the site for the colony, and the first colonists began arriving in December 1821. .... the first African American to win the world heavyweight title when he knocks out...
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Austin's Colony  Austin's Colony was the first legal settlement of North American families in ... for this colony in Texas during late 1820 and 1821, but died before being able to ... Austin travelled to San Antonio de Bexar, where he was declared the rightful heir to his ... body, so by 1830, Austin had established a colony of about 1,500 families.
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Battle of San Jacinto | April 1836. The Texian Army wins Texas ...  Sam Houston leads Texican forces over the Mexican army to win Texas independence and open westward expansion in the US, changing the face of world...
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Austin's Colony  Stephen F. Austin's father, Moses, laid the foundation for this colony in Texas during late 1820 ... affirmed Austin's contract to settle Texas with families from the United States. ... One of these "Old 300" was Henry Jones, who located his league along the ... The whole family were dressed in buckskin, and when supper was...
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TEXAS REVOLUTION | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State ...  Aug 7, 2010 ... The Texas Revolution began with the battle of Gonzales in October ... Actually, the great mass of the colonists had no quarrel with Mexico or ... Map of Texas (1836) ... had arrested the governor and that large reinforcements would soon .... He also gives a brief history of Davy Crockett, James Fannin, and...
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The Conquistador Story | Texas State History Museum  The Spanish soldier-explorers came to Texas in search of gold and glory. They didn't find gold or much glory, but what one conquistador did find changed him. ... During the Age of Exploration, Spanish conquistadors came to the Americas in search of the three G's: gold, glory, and God.
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How We Got Texasand Oregon and California | American ...  Jun 15, 2012 ... President Tyler sent an annexation treaty to the Senate in 1844 at the ... territories, but Texas was an independent country, not a territory and, by ... Polk did not want war, but he wanted American claims met and he ... Polk quickly dispatched John Slidell, with authority to pay as much as $30 million dollars in...
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Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle | French explorer ...  22, 1643, Rouen, Francedied March 19, 1687, near Brazos River [now in Texas, U.S.]) ... Having sold his land, La Salle set out in 1669 to explore the Ohio region. ... Louis XIV was sufficiently impressed by him to grant him a title of nobility. ... There, on April 9, 1682, the explorer proclaimed the whole Mississippi Basin for...
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Moses Austin - George West ISD  His plan was to bring and settle Texas with Anglo-American settlers. ... In 1821, Moses Austin got permission to bring 300 families to Texas. ... His son, Stephen F. Austin takes on his father's work and begins to continue to carry out ... Ok Dad I'll carry out your plans for settling Texas. The Spanish word for a land agent...
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Revisited Myth # 36: The first American settlers built log cabins ...  Jan 23, 2015 ... Revisited Myth # 36: The first American settlers built log cabins. ... The original European colonists who settled in what became the thirteen American colonies were English. ... the colony of New Sweden (around Delaware & New Jersey) in 1638. They built traditional Scandinavian-style homes like this one:.
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Stephen F. Austin - Wikipedia  Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793  December 27, 1836) was an American empresario ... On June 8, 1798, when Stephen was four years old, his family moved west to the ... Over the next few months, Little Rock did become the territorial capital, but Austin's claim to .... He was taken to Mexico City and imprisoned.
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Cabeza de Vaca discovers Texas - Nov 06, 1528 - HISTORY.com  Early Spanish Colony Unearthed In Downtown Pensacola ... On this day in 1962, the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution ... On November 6, 1998, President Bill Clinton declares that part of Detroit will become ... the first president to make an official diplomatic tour outside of the continental United States.
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WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS, TX - Texas State Historical ...  Washington-on-the-Brazos, officially named Washington, in the upper ... crossing; in 1824 he obtained a grant of a half league from the Mexican government. ... Attracted by its location on the river and on or near major roads, merchants and ... the Texas Declaration of Independence, wrote the Constitution of the Republic of...
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IMA Hero: Reading Program Chisholm Trail  ... Columbus had brought with him on his second voyage to the Americas in 1493. The first cattle to reach Texas were probably brought by Spanish explorer Francisco Vsquez ... These qualities would help the longhorn during difficult cattle drives to the north. ... 600,000 Americans had died during the four years of fighting.
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Texas annexation - Wikipedia  The Texas annexation was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, ... The bill was signed by Polk on December 29, 1845, accepting Texas as the...
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Spanish Texas - Wikipedia  Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New ... Two years later in 1718, the first civilian settlement in Texas, San Antonio, was ... In 1685, the Spanish learned that France had established a colony in the ... returning to Mexico to request an additional 14 priests and 7 lay brothers.
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BALLI, JOSE NICOLAS | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas ...  Jun 12, 2010 ... Jos Nicols Ball, a secular Catholic priest, the oldest son of Jos Mara and ... of the Texas coastal island later named Padre Island in his honor. ... in South Texas and the state of Tamaulipas as a missionary, a rancher, ... Around 1820 he began the construction of the present Church of ... Spanish Texas.
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Texas Revolution - Wikipedia  The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835  April 21, 1836) began when colonists in the Mexican ... In March 1836, a second political convention declared independence and appointed leadership for the new Republic of Texas. .... After Santa Anna's troops subdued the rebellion in Zacatecas in May, he gave his troops two...