"Everyone knows that the Texas Revolution broke out at Gonzales on 2 October 1835, San Antonio was soon captured and Sam Houston named commander-in-chief. The Alamo was lost in March 1836, captured soldiers were shot at Goliad, and on 12 April Houston won the battle of San Jacinto, defeating General Antonio López de Santa-Anna, securing the independence of Texas, of which Houston was the first president. Texas was admitted to the Union on 29 December 1845, and this action precipitated the Mexican War. This was merely the last in a series of incidents beginning with the Louisiana purchase of 1803 with the aim of acquiring this territory for the United States. Secretary of State Monroe had conceived the aim of conquering Canada and Mexico at the time of the War of 1812, so it was no new idea. Burr and Wilkinson had some such scheme in mind that never came to fruition. Here is an account of the first serious attempt for the independence of Texas.
The province of Téjas in Nueva España extended from the Rio Nueces (which enters the Gulf near the present city of Corpus Christi) to the Rio Sabina, which was the border with Louisiana. The northern boundary was the Rio Colorado, now the Red River, but was somewhat indefinite because there was no settlement there except by the Comanches. South of the Nueces was the province of Nueva Santander, now Tamaulipas, and to the west was the province of Coahuila. The idea of the Rio Bravo, or Rio Grande as it is known in the United States, as the southern boundary is a purely American idea.
The capital was at San Antonio de Béjar, just north of Rio Medina. South of San Antonio was a desert, reaching to Laredo on the Rio Bravo. Nacodoches, far to the east, was the gateway to Texas from the United States. It has added a "g" as a Texas town. Nachitoches, on the Red River in Louisiana, was also on the route, accessible by river. There was a little settlement at Galveston, and another at Presidio de la Trinidad near the Brazos (why a prison was needed here is a wonder), and still others near the bay of Espiritú Santo, behind Matagorda Island. European settlement was mostly in the form of haciendas, each a small, largely independent, community. Americans, where they were allowed to settle and hold land, brought their slaves with them to work their haciendas. It was very difficult to get settlers, so even Americans were admitted…"
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