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The first of the ships acquired was the former revenue service ship USRC Ingham, a small six-gun ship of 112 tons which was renamed Independence. The Independence became the flagship of the First Texas Navy and was placed under the command of Captain Charles E. Hawkins; she fought a battle with Mexican naval forces on June 14, 1835, off Brazos ...
The Texas Navy, officially the Navy of the Republic of Texas, also known as the Second Texas Navy, was the naval warfare branch of the Texas Military Forces during the Republic of Texas. [1] It descended from the Texian Navy , which was established in November 1835 to fight for independence from Centralist Republic of Mexico in the Texas ...
Texas Militia Hugh McCleod / George T. Howard 320 POW Failure [48] 1842 Somervell Expedition Texas Militia Alexander Somervell Unknown Inconclusive [49] 1842 Mier Expedition / Battle of Mier: Texas Militia William S. Fisher 30 KIA, 280 POW Loss [50] 1843 Naval Battle of Campeche: Texas Navy: Edwin Ward Moore: 7 KIA, 24 WIA Inconclusive
The Texas Navy, officially the Navy of the Republic of Texas, also known as the Second Texas Navy, was the naval warfare branch of the Texas Military Forces during the Republic of Texas. It descended from the Texian Navy, which was established in November 1835 to fight for independence from Centralist Republic of Mexico in the Texas Revolution.
With the wreck of the schooners Invincible and Brutus, the First Texas Navy was at an end. The Texas government then began to procure new vessels for a second Texas Navy.The wreck site of one of the participating ships may have been discovered in 1995 by the National Undersea Marine Agency, though the leader of the project thinks the remains of the shipwreck were widely broadcast by subsequent ...
The Texan schooner Independence was one of the four schooners of the First Texas Navy (1836–1838). At the direction of Texas Governor Henry Smith, in 1836 Charles Hawkins took command of United States revenue cutter Ingham acquired by the Texas Navy and renamed Independence.
The San Felipe incident was the first naval battle fought between Mexican and rebel forces during the Texas Revolution. [1] Thomas McKinney deliberately provoked the Mexican government by heavily arming the merchant ship San Felipe, filling it with a cargo of munitions meant for Texian revolutionaries, and sending it from New Orleans to Brazoria, Texas.
His first assignment came when he was posted to the USS Hornet, ... United States (Government), Naval History Division, (1968), The Texas Navy, Volume 2; Volume 31,