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' Remember the Alamo. The Republic of Texas. Sam Houston. Courtesy: National Archives. In autumn 1835, simmering political tensions in Texas came to a boil. A series of bloody skirmishes over...
Until 1836, Texas had been part of Mexico, but in that year a group of settlers from the United States who lived in Mexican Texas declared independence. They called their new country the Republic of Texas, which was an independent country for nine years.
This is a timeline of the Republic of Texas, spanning the time from the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836, up to the transfer of power to the State of Texas on February 19, 1846.
On March 2, 1836, a delegation at Washington-on-the-Brazos adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence, and thus was born the Republic of Texas. Santa Anna had brought his army to Texas to put down the rebellion, and events followed in quick succession.
Mar 5, 2021 · With Texas now an independent nation—called the Republic of Texas—in September 1836 colonists began to set up a new government and national constitution, electing Houston as their first...
Feb 25, 2016 · The Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836), the first Anglo-American constitution to govern Texas, was drafted by a convention of fifty-nine delegates who assembled at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1, 1836 ( see CONVENTION OF 1836 ).
Building this new nation was a huge task led by legendary Texians, including Sam Houston, Juan Seguín, Mirabeau B. Lamar, José Antonio Navarro, and Anson Jones. In these virtual field trips, discover the challenges of being the new Republic of Texas.
