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1824: October 4 – The Mexican Constitution of 1824 establishes a federal republic. Texas is combined with the province of Coahuila to form the new province Coahuila y Tejas. 1825: Green DeWitt establishes a new colony in Texas, west of Austin's. Haden Edwards establishes a colony in Texas, east of Austin's.
The Texas region of the state of Coahuila and Texas declared its independence from Mexico on October 2, 1835, forming the Republic of Texas; Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas declared themselves independent of Mexico on January 17, 1840, as the Republic of the Rio Grande. The Republic was never truly independent, since the rebels were ...
Juan Cortina and the Texas-Mexico frontier (1859–1877), by Jerry D. Thompson, Southwestern Studies, 1994 (ISBN 0-87404-195-3). "Cheno Cortina", the Tamaulipas man who invaded Texas, by Adrián Cerda, Editorial Contenido, 2001. Juan Cortina and the Struggle for Justice in Texas, by Carlos Larralde and José R. Jacobo, Kendall Hunt, 2000.
In 1827 and 1829, the United States offered to purchase Mexican Texas.. Both times, President Guadalupe Victoria declined to sell part of the border state. [2] After the failed Fredonian Rebellion in eastern Texas, the Mexican government asked General Manuel Mier y Terán to investigate the outcome of the 1824 General Colonization Law in Texas.
Mexican Texas is the historiographical name used to refer to the era of Texan history between 1821 and 1836, when it was part of Mexico. Mexico gained independence in 1821 after winning its war against Spain, which began in 1810.
He received a title to a sitio (roughly 4600 acres where La Porte and Morgan's Point, TX are now located) of land from the Mexican government in 1824. In 1826, he sold Hunter's Point (peninsula between Galveston & San Jacinto Bays, now known as Morgans Point and La Porte and relocated to Fort Bend County, where he built a home that served as a ...
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The Republic of the Rio Grande was a proposed republic composed of the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and parts of the current U.S. state of Texas. On 17 January 1840, a group of notables of the three states met close to Laredo .