texas
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The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Texian Rebels
Republic of Texas
Texas
Establishment
October 1835: Battle of Gonzales.
October 1835: Battle of Goliad.
November 1835: Battle of Lipantitlán.
December 1835: San Antonio de Béxar is besieged by the Texian Rebels.
Chronology
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Was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the centralist government of Mexico. Texas became an independent country and shortly after joined the United States.
March 1836: In 1836, the Anglo-Americans settlers declared independence from Mexico and established the Republic of Texas, an independent nation.
1.1.Texan Revolt
Was the initial revolt in Texas that evolved into the Texas revolution.
1.2.Mexican Counterattack
Was a Mexican military campaign in Texas against the rebels of the Texas revolution.
February 1836: Mexican forces crossed the Nueces River, officially entering Texas.
March 1836: Battle of the Alamo.
April 1836: The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836 was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Samuel Houston, the Texan Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes.
1.2.1.Goliad Campaign
Was a 1836 Mexican offensive to retake the Texas Gulf Coast during the Texas Revolution.
February 1836: Battle of San Patricio.
March 1836: Mexican general Ramírez y Sesma reached Gonzales the morning of March 14.
March 1836: The Texians repulsed Mexican attacks for several days. On March 15, as their ammunition ran short, Texians retreated from Refugio. Many were killed or captured.
March 1836: The Battle of Coleto was fought during the Texas Revolution between Texian forces led by Colonel James Fannin and Mexican troops commanded by General Urrea. After being surrounded and outnumbered, Fannin surrendered to the Mexican forces on March 20, 1836 in Goliad, Texas.
1.3.Declaration of Texan independence
Was the declaration of Independence of Texas from Mexico.
1.4.Treaties of Velasco
Was the treaty that ended the Texas Revolution, a conflict between Mexico and Texas caused by the secession of the latter.
May 1836: What are known now as the Treaties of Velasco were not called that when they were drafted, but were rather a "Public Agreement" and a Secret Treaty. There were two documents, one private, the other public, signed in Velasco, Texas between General Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico and the Republic of Texas, in the aftermath of the Battle of San Jacinto on 21 April 1836. The signatories were Interim President David G. Burnet for Texas and Santa Anna for Mexico. The Mexican forces agreed to retreat south of Rio Grande.
May 1836: The region of Texas of the state of Coahuila y Texas declared its independence. The rest of the state was named Coahuila. The Treaties of Velasco ended the Texas Revolution on May 14, 1836 with the creation of the independent Republic of Texas.
Was a civil war in the United States of America between the central government (Unionists) and the secessionist Confederate States of America that occupied the southern States. The main cause of the war was the different economic system of the northern and southern states: the northern states were industrialized and had abolished slavery, whereas the southern states relied on slavery to run its plantation agriculture based economy. At the end of the war the Union occupied the southern states and slavery was abolished. .
2.1.Secession Phase
The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused a wave of southern states secessions in the United States. The secessionist states soon formed an independent country, the Confederate States of America.
February 1861: Texas left the confederation in February.
March 1861: Texas proclaimed its secession from the Union and was admitted to the Confederate States.
January 1837: The Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma in the United States. It was a sixty-mile (97 km) wide parcel of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border between the 96th and 100th meridians. The Cherokee Outlet was created in 1836.
December 1845: In 1845, Congress admitted Texas to the U.S. as a constituent state of the Union. This decision was a result of negotiations led by President James K. Polk and Texas President Anson Jones, following Texas' annexation from the Republic of Texas.
Disestablishment
February 1861: Texas left the confederation in February.
March 1861: Texas proclaimed its secession from the Union and was admitted to the Confederate States.
Selected Sources
Secession Ordinances of 13 Confederate States (1861). Digital History. Retrieved on 25 September 2023 on http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3953
Secession Ordinances of 13 Confederate States. University of Houston. Retrieved on 4 April 2024 on https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3953
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