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Mexican Schooner Seized
Isaac W. Burton’s rangers capture the Mexican schooner Watchman, with supplies for the Mexican army, in Copano...
Laredo Skirmish
Erastus “Deaf” Smith skirmishes with Mexican defensores (militia) outside Laredo. Ten Mexicans are killed, ten...
Córdova Revolt
The Córdova revolt is discovered when two of Vicente Córdova’s men kill an Anglo Texan resident of Nacogdoches who is...
Córdova Rebels Attack Texas Militia
Two miles west of present-day Palestine, a force of 175 militia men under Leonard H. Mabbitt is attacked by Mexican and...
Battle at Kickapoo Village
Supporters of Vicente Córdova--a force that included Mexicans, blacks, Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Coushattas, and...
Battle of the Neches
At a Delaware village west of the Neches River, about 19 miles southeast of present-day Canton, 500 Texans under General...
Texans Skirmish with Laredo Militia
A ranger company of 25 Anglos and Tejanos led by John C. Hays skirmishes with Laredo militia ten miles outside of town. Nine...
Mexican Troops Attack Refugio
Mexican soldiers enter Refugio where, according to reports, they kill “a few” men. A number of residents were also captured...
San Patricio Rangers Killed
Mexican defensores (milita) under Capt. Enrique Villarreal pursues a party of San Patricio rangers led by John Yerby, which...
San Patricio Rangers Killed
Sixteen Texans led by Capt. James Ownsby are surrounded by Mexican dragoons at Santa Rosa, ten miles west of present-day...
San Patricio Rangers Killed
Mexican troops under Lt. Co. Rámon Valera kill William Cairns and three members of Cairns’ Western Spy Company near San...
Mexican Troops Kill San Antonio Residents
One day after Mexican troops under the command of General Adrian Woll seize San Antonio, three Anglo-Texans are killed at...
Battle of Salado Creek
In response to the capture of San Antonio one week earlier, more than 200 Texas volunteers engage Mexican troops under the...
Dawson Fight
In an effort to reinforce Anglo-Texas volunteers engaged in the defense of San Antonio at Salado Creek, a company of fifty-...
Medina River Skirmish
Capt. Jack Hays and fifteen men skirmish with defensores (militia) under the command of former Bexar resident Antonio Perez...