Land speculators Haden and Benjamin Edwards call upon Nacogdoches residents to join them in a revolt against the Mexican government. The rebels draft a declaration of independence on December 21,1826, but few residents support the insurrection.
Date: December 21,1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
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Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.603513000000
Longitude: -94.655487000000
Longitude: -94.655487000000
Citation:
Archie P. McDonald, "Fredonian Rebellion," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jcf01), accessed January 12, 2016. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Modified on September 23, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: June 26-29, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) In the first major conflict between Anglo colonists and the Mexican government, a force of 100-150 Anglos under John Austin and Henry Smith attack Fort Velasco (present-day Surfside Beach). Approximately ten Texans are killed and eleven wounded. The Mexican garrison commanded by Col.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.946286000000
Longitude: -95.293251000000
Longitude: -95.293251000000
Citation:
"Velasco, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qfv01), accessed August 18, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: August 2-3, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) A battle for control of Nacogdoches results in the deaths of 47 Mexican troops and four Anglo-Texan colonists. Mexican troops under the command of Col. José de las Piedras evacuate the town.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.611503000000
Longitude: -94.647639000000
Longitude: -94.647639000000
Citation:
Archie P. McDonald, "Nacogdoches, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen01), accessed August 18, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: August 3, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Retreating Mexican troops surrender to Anglo-Texan colonists at Durst farm (near present day Douglas) in aftermath of Battle of Nacogdoches.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.668721000000
Longitude: -94.883473000000
Longitude: -94.883473000000
Citation:
Archie P. McDonald, "Nacogdoches, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen01), accessed August 18, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: September 1, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Mexican cutter Correo de México fires on schooner San Felipe, laden with munitions, near Brazoria. Several Correo crew members, including Capt. William A. Hurd, are injured. The Correo surrenders the following day.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.060139000000
Longitude: -95.550762000000
Longitude: -95.550762000000
Citation:
Thomas W. Cutrer, "San Felipe," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qts03), accessed August 18, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: October 2, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) In an attempt to retrieve a cannon held by the citizens of Gonzales, Lt. Francisco de Castañeda and 100 Mexican dragoons are fired upon by approximately 140 Texas colonists led by John H. Moore on the banks of the Guadalupe river, seven miles west of Gonzales.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.504326000000
Longitude: -97.526169000000
Longitude: -97.526169000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Hardin, "Gonzales, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qeg03), accessed July 20, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on March 17, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: October 9, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Capt. George M. Collinsworth and approximately 120 Texas colonists attack the Mexican garrison defending the Presidio la Bahía at Goliad. Three Mexican soldiers are killed.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.648058000000
Longitude: -97.382858000000
Longitude: -97.382858000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:33.
Craig H. Roell, "Goliad Campaign of 1835," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook /online/articles/qdg01), accessed July 20, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association
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Date: October 28, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Anglo-Texas rebels led by James Bowie and James Walker Fannin Jr. skirmish with Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea and 275 Mexican troops near Mission Concepción, two miles south of San Antonio. Fourteen Mexican soldiers and one Texan (Richard Andrews) are reported killed.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.390693000000
Longitude: -98.491652000000
Longitude: -98.491652000000
Citation:
Alwyn Barr, Texans in Revolt: the Battle for San Antonio, 1835. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990, 26.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:47.
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Date: November 4, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Near the Nueces River two miles west of San Patricio, approximately 60 Texans under Ira J. Westover engage 90 Mexican soldiers under Captain Nicolás Rodríguez. Eight Mexican soldiers are killed; 12-14 wounded. Four Texans are wounded.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.948876000000
Longitude: -97.797235000000
Longitude: -97.797235000000
Citation:
Keith Guthrie, "Lipantitlan, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qfl03), accessed August 18, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas (Austin: Sate House Press, 1986), 118-21.
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Date: November 8, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Skirmish between Anglo colonists led by John Bird and Mexican cavalry near San Antonio results in five Mexicans killed.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.449074000000
Longitude: -98.834388000000
Longitude: -98.834388000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, November 21, 1835
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Date: Novermber 26, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Texas colonists led by James Bowie engage a Mexican supply train near Alazan Creek, one mile west of San Antonio, believing it to be carrying pay for the Mexican army then in control of the city. Four Texans are wounded; three Mexicans troops are killed, fourteen wounded.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.423360000000
Longitude: -98.580329000000
Longitude: -98.580329000000
Citation:
Handbook of Texas Online, Alwyn Barr, "Grass Fight," accessed July 08, 2016, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qfg01. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on June 30, 2016. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: December 5-9, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) After laying siege to San Antonio de Bexar for more than a month, Texas rebels initiate a series of assaults on the city that results in the surrender of Gen. Manuel Perfecto de Cos on December 9. Texas casualties number 30-35. Mexican losses numbered roughly 150.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.378036000000
Longitude: -98.484811000000
Longitude: -98.484811000000
Citation:
Handbook of Texas Online, Alwyn Barr, "Bexar, Siege Of," accessed July 08, 2016, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qeb01.
Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Modified on April 25, 2016. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: Feb 23 - March 6, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) After a 13-day siege, about 1,800 Mexican soldiers take part in an assault on the Alamo mission, defended by more than 200 Texans. All the Anglo defenders are killed. Gen. Juan Jose Andrade reported 260 Mexican troops killed, with fifty-one wounded.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.425833000000
Longitude: -98.486111000000
Longitude: -98.486111000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Hardin, "Alamo, Battle of the," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qea02), accessed October 27, 2015. Uploaded on June 9, 2010. Modified on September 30, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Enrique de la Peña, With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative oif the Revolution (College Station: Texas A&M University Press), 54.
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Date: February 27, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Four hundred Mexican troops led by Gen. José de Urrea surprise approximately one hundred Texans under the command of Col. Francis W. Johnson at San Patricio, ten miles south of present-day Mathis. Twenty Texans are killed; Thirty-two are taken prisoner.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.960070000000
Longitude: -97.762068000000
Longitude: -97.762068000000
Citation:
Keith Guthrie, "San Patricio, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qfs03), accessed August 17, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Carlos E Castañeda, ed. The Mexican Side of the Texas Revolution (Reprint Services Corp., 1993), 222-23.
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Date: March 2, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) James Grant and ten Texans are killed by Mexican troops under Gen. José Urrea on Agua Dulce Creek, 26 miles below San Patricio, near present-day Kingsville.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.594599000000
Longitude: -97.826201000000
Longitude: -97.826201000000
Citation:
Keith Guthrie, "San Patricio, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qfs03), accessed August 17, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Carlos E Castañeda, ed. The Mexican Side of the Texas Revolution (Reprint Services Corp., 1993), 223.
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Date: March 12-15, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) In a series of engagements in and near the Nuestra Señora Refugio Mission, a force of 1,500 Mexican troops under Gen. Jose Urrea and several dozen rancheros under the command of Carlos de la Garza defeat 150 Texas colonists and U.S. volunteers led by Amon B. King and Col. William Ward.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.294439000000
Longitude: -97.277833000000
Longitude: -97.277833000000
Citation:
Craig H. Roell, "Refugio, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qer01), accessed October 27, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Carlos E Castañeda, ed. The Mexican Side of the Texas Revolution (Reprint Services Corp., 1993), 225-27.
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Date: March 19-20, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano) Approximately 300 troops under James W. Fannin Jr. are intercepted by 340 Mexican soldiers under General José de Urrea near Coleto Creek, ten miles east of Goliad. Fannin suffers 10 killed and approximately 60 wounded on March 19, and surrenders the following day.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.665536000000
Longitude: -97.334702000000
Longitude: -97.334702000000
Citation:
Craig H. Roell, "Coleto, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qec01), accessed October 27, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: March 27, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Gender: male
Three hundred forty-two Texas prisoners, consisting of James Fannin’s command captured at the Battle of Coleto and those of Amon King and William Ward captured at the Battle of Refugio, are executed at Goliad.
Location:
Latitude: 28.612982000000
Longitude: -97.421924000000
Longitude: -97.421924000000
Citation:
Herbert Davenport and Craig H. Roell, "Goliad Massacre," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qeg02), accessed October 27, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on September 17, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: April 20, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Sidney Sherman and a small detachment of cavalry engaged in a skirmish with Mexican soldiers near Lynch’s Ferry (present-day Lynchburg). Olwyn J. Trask was killed.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.785231000000
Longitude: -95.053104000000
Longitude: -95.053104000000
Citation:
L. W. Kemp, "San Jacinto, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qes04), accessed October 27, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on October 15, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Date: April 21, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36, Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36, Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano) Nine hundred and ten Texas troops under Gen. Sam Houston attack approximately 1,200 Mexican troops under President Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, located at the bend of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou, in present-day La Porte. Nine Texans are killed and 30 wounded.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.668411000000
Longitude: -95.130553000000
Longitude: -95.130553000000
Citation:
L. W. Kemp, "San Jacinto, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qes04), accessed October 27, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on October 15, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 133.
Andrew Forest Muir, "San Jacinto Battleground State Park," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/gks04), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on March 26, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.]
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