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The convention confirmed Houston's command of the Texian Army and dispatched him to lead a relief of Travis's force, but the Alamo fell before Houston could organize his forces at Gonzales, Texas. Seeking to intimidate Texan forces into surrender, the Mexican army killed every defender at the Alamo; news of the defeat outraged many Texans and ...
These treaties did not necessarily recognize Texas as a sovereign nation but stipulated that Santa Anna was to lobby for such recognition in Mexico City. Sam Houston became a national celebrity, and the Texans' rallying cries from events of the war, "Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Goliad", became etched into Texan history and legend.
Sam Houston was born into a slaveholding family in Virginia. [3] [4] His father, Samuel Davidson Houston, an American Revolutionary War veteran, died in 1806 when Houston was eleven.
Sam Houston was the premier Southern Unionist in Texas. While he was a slaveholder and deplored the election of the Lincoln Administration, he considered secession unconstitutional and thought secession at that moment in time was a "rash action" that was certain to lead to a conflict favoring the industrial and populated North.
The Sam Houston Oak [FN 7] where the Provisional Army of Texas rested after the burning of Gonzales. Although civilian evacuations had begun in January for the Gulf Coast and San Antonio de Béxar, the Texian military was either on the offensive or standing firm until the smaller Gulf Coast skirmishes happened in February.
Sam Houston agreed to open annexation negotiations with the Tyler administration in 1843. By the summer of 1843 Sam Houston's Texas administration had returned to negotiations with the Mexican government to consider a rapprochement that would permit Texas self-governance, possibly as a state of Mexico, with Great Britain acting as mediator.
Houston orders Francis W. Thornton to command at Goliad. January 21 Sam Houston arrives at Refugio to control the Matamoros expedition. February 1 Elections are held in settlements across Texas for an independence convention. February 2 James Bowie pleads to Smith for supplies. Fannin arrives with troops at Copano, Texas to aid the Matamoros ...
Sam Houston convinced the delegates to remain in Washington-on-the-Brazos to develop a constitution. After being appointed sole commander of all Texian troops, Houston journeyed to Gonzales to take command of the 400 volunteers who were still waiting for Fannin to lead them to the Alamo. [148]