The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volum 9Texas State Historical Association., 1906 |
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abandono Aberdeen Adaes Adaesans Alamo annexation Apaches appointed archives of Texas arrived artillery attack Austin Papers Bahía battle Béxar Béxar Archives Brazos Bucareli Cabello Capt Captain Champ d'Asile citizens Colonel Comanches command committee Confederate council Croix December elected enemy England enlisted Expediente expedition Fannin Father force French frontier garrison Garza Goliad Gonzales Governor Smith Houston Indians January JOHN SOWERS BROOKS Judge June Klan Ku Klux Klan land letter Lewis Ayers lieutenant Lord Aberdeen los Adaes Major Bennet March Matamoras Mexican Mexico Mezières militia mission Nacogdoches Natchitoches Negro November November 15 Oconor officers Orcoquisac organized Orleans party President presidio pueblo Quaderno que Corresponde QUARTERLY received regular army Republic of Texas Ripperdá River Rubí San Antonio San Patricio Santa sent settlement settlers soldiers soon Spaniards Spanish TERM ENDING Texans tion trade Travis treaty tribes Trinity United viceroy volunteers wounded wrote Ybarbo
Passatges populars
Pàgina 158 - MEN'S monuments, grown old, forget their names They should eternize, but the place Where shining souls have passed imbibes a grace Beyond mere earth ; some sweetness of their fames Leaves in the soil its unextinguished trace, Pungent, pathetic, sad with nobler aims, That penetrates our lives and heightens them or shames.
Pàgina 244 - That they hold it to be their right during the disorganization of the Federal System, and the reign of despotism, to withdraw from the Union, to establish an independent Government, or to adopt such measures as they may deem best calculated to protect their rights and liberties ; but that they will continue faithful to the Mexican Government so long as that nation is governed by the Constitution and laws that were formed for the government of the Political Association.
Pàgina 244 - Texas. 4th. That they will not cease to carry on war against the said authorities whilst their troops are within the limits of Texas. 5th. That they hold it to be their right during the disorganization of the federal system, and the reign of despotism, to withdraw from the union, to establish an independent government...
Pàgina 244 - That Texas is no longer, morally or civilly, bound by the compact of Union; yet, stimulated by the generosity and sympathy common to a free people they offer their support and assistance to such of the Mexicans of the Mexican Confederacy as will take up arms against their military despotism. 3d. That they do not acknowledge, that the present authorities of the nominal Mexican Republic have the right to govern within the limits of Texas.
Pàgina 244 - That Texas is no longer morally or civilly bound by the compact of union; yet, stimulated by the generosity and sympathy common to a free people, they offer their support and assistance to such of the members of the Mexican confederacy as will take up arms against military despotism. 3d. That they do not acknowledge that the present authorities of the nominal Mexican republic have the right to govern within the limits of Texas.
Pàgina 196 - We have 450 men here, and twelve pieces of small artillery. We have strengthened the fort very much; and he will find it difficult with his 1650 men to drive us from our post. We are hourly anticipating an attack, and preparing for it. We are short of provisions, and that is now our deadliest foe. Unless we are soon supplied, we can not hold out much longer. We have had no bread for some time. We suffer much from the want of shoes and clothing. Excuse this hasty letter. I have just returned from...
Pàgina 119 - As we have seen, he put himself into the good graces of the community by building a church for it, but one is inclined to be skeptical when told that he did this through extreme piety alone, particularly when informed by one of Ybarbo's admirers that La Mathe and Ybarbo kept up...
Pàgina 99 - I, 630), which occupies only a page, and that marred by errors and half truths. •Ripperda (writing from Bexar) to the viceroy, September 1, 1774, and November 15, 1774, in Quaderno que Corresponde, 34-36. •Ybarbo, in describing a trip made by him to the coast in 1777, said that he went through Orcoquisac. See a summary of his report in a letter from Ripperda to Croix, August 30, 1777, in Expediente sobre. . . . Parroco. 13-19. tween Nacogdoches and...
Pàgina 63 - Mexicans, who were waging war of extermination against the inhabitants. A call was made for all friends of humanity to rise in arms and resist the foe. Men were panicstricken and fled, leaving their all behind them. I could not reconcile it to my feelings to leave Texas without an effort to save it. Accordingly, I bent my course for the army and arrived last evening at this place. I shall enter camp this morning as a volunteer. The army, commanded by General Houston, is lying on the west side of...
Pàgina 145 - Fellows, and the body thus created may thereafter elect additional Fellows on the nomination of the Executive Council. The number of Fellows shall never exceed twenty-five.