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.
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) 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.
Event Type:
Date: October 5, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Margaret McClellan and her two children are captured by Indians in Robertson colony on the San Gabriel River. Exact location unknown, but roughly forty miles north of present-day Austin. They soon escape and are found by a search party led by her husband a few days later.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.726593000000
Longitude: -97.809451000000
Longitude: -97.809451000000
Citation:
“Female fortitude,” Telegraph and Texas Register, October 17, 1835.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 190-92.
Event Type:
Date: October 5, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Edward Burleson and twenty colonists engage in a running fight with a dozen Comanches near Gonzales. Several Indians are killed. A German boy in his early teens who had been captured previously is recovered.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.510346000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
Citation:
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 108.
Event Type:
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
Event Type:
Date: October 17, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835, Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835, Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Roughly 100 enslaved persons are whipped in the aftermath of a slave revolt in Brazoria near the lower Brazos River. An unknown number of enslaved persons are hanged and whipped to death.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.168988000000
Longitude: -95.431910000000
Longitude: -95.431910000000
Citation:
Sean Kelley, ""Mexico in His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810-1860." Journal of Social History, vol. 37, no. 3 (Spring 2004), 716.
Event Type:
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.
Event Type:
Date: October 29, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Texas soldiers under Major George Sutherland is attacked by Karankawas twelve miles from the Goliad presidio on the San Antonio Road. One Texan, David M. Collinsworth, is killed.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.647419000000
Longitude: -97.383557000000
Longitude: -97.383557000000
Citation:
John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (Austin: Presidial Press, 1973), 2:266-67, 275-77.
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 114.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:48.
Telegraph and Texas Register, November 14, 1835
Event Type:
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.
Event Type:
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
Event Type:
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.
Event Type:
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.
Event Type:
Date: 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Austin colonist John Taylor is killed by Indians near present day Anderson.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.490051000000
Longitude: -96.003783000000
Longitude: -96.003783000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 229.
Event Type:
Date: 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Four men and one boy are killed by Comanches near the Rio Grande, 40 miles southeast of Las Moras Creek.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.467206000000
Longitude: -100.978278000000
Longitude: -100.978278000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 30.
Carl Coke Rister, Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's (Glendale Ca: A.H. Clark, 1955), 122-23.
Event Type:
Date: January 1, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of 40 Caddo and Comanches attacks two wagons of colonists near the mouth of Brushy Creek, on the San Gabriel River. Thomas Riley is killed; his brother James Riley is severely wounded. Four Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.722847000000
Longitude: -97.046335000000
Longitude: -97.046335000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 13:38-40.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:71-2.
“More Indian Difficulties,” Telegraph and Texas Register, January 23, 1836.
Event Type:
Date: January 20, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanches attack Hibbins party near the headwaters of Navidad River (northwest of present day Schulenberg). John Hibbins, his brother-in-law George Creath, and an infant are killed. Mrs. Hibbins and a son are captured.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.711386000000
Longitude: -96.845489000000
Longitude: -96.845489000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 88-90.
James T. De Shields, Border Wars of Texas: being an Authentic and Popular Account, in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Waged Between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas, ed. Matt Bradley (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 198.
Event Type:
Date: Late January 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) John J. Tumlinson Jr. and rangers pursue Comanches in search of the Hibbins son, seized on January 20. On Walnut Creek, in present-day Austin, the rangers attack the Comanches and rescue the child, killing one Indian.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.277439000000
Longitude: -97.653920000000
Longitude: -97.653920000000
Citation:
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 119-121.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 27, 1836.
Event Type:
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.
Event Type:
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.
Event Type:
Date: March 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of 60 Indians (probably Comanches) attack six Anglos on the San Gabriel River, 25 miles north of present day Austin. No loss of life on either side.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.429965000000
Longitude: -97.657136000000
Longitude: -97.657136000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32.
Event Type: