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TEXAS REVOLUTION
Conflict between Americans settlers and Mexico
Moses Austin
He was a American businessman. He lost his entire fortune and decided to
presented a plan to colonize Texas. He also established the first English American
settlement west of the Mississippi River.
That year M. Austin died of exhaustion
and exposure but her son, Stephen
Austin, continues whit the project. In January 1821 he left for Missouri with a grant
to bring three hundred Colonists into Texas. By l830 there were 16,000 Americans in Texas.
In 1832 General Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna became Mexico's president. Two years later he made himself dictator. Santa Anna also imprisoned Stephen Austin in a
Mexican jail for a year.
Santa Anna
decided go marching
north with 7,000 soldiers. Battle El Alamo
200 Texas rebels decided to defend the city, 180 died.
1500 of Santa Anna´s soldiers were injured.
Rebel’s army captured Santa Anna.
They forced him to sign a treaty.
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