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Augustus Magee was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of James and Margaret (Elliot) Magee.His father, a native of County Down, Ireland, settled in New York before moving to Boston and was a privateer captain in the American Revolution and, following independence, a leading merchant in the China trade.
Solid green flag of the expedition which represented the Irish heritage of co-leader Augustus Magee. Gutiérrez gained the support of Augustus Magee and formed a force of 130 men at Natchitoches, Louisiana. In early August, The men then crossed into Spanish Texas and captured the town of Nacogdoches. [3]
Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara took up the effort to free Texas from Spain. Colonel Gutiérrez visited Washington, D.C., gaining some support for his plans. In 1812, Colonel Augustus Magee, who as a lieutenant had commanded U.S. Army troops guarding the border of the Neutral Ground and Spanish Texas, resigned his commission and formed the Republican Army of the North to aid the Gutiérrez–Magee ...
The battle involved the Republican Army of the North (RAN), which was led by filibusters Samuel Kemper (who had been involved in an 1804 rebellion in Florida), Augustus Magee, and Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, the expedition's leader, fighting against the Spanish Royalist forces commanded by Manuel María de Salcedo, Governor of the province of Texas, and Simón de Herrera, the governor of ...
Augustus Magee: 1789–1813 1812–1813 A former US Army officer who led a filibustering expedition of Spanish Texas in 1812. Philo Norton McGiffin: 1860-1897
The force, known as the Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition and commanded by men such as Augustus Magee and Samuel Kemper, invaded Texas in 1812, taking possession of several cities and driving back the forces of Manuel María de Salcedo and Simón de Herrera. In addition, he allowed these two governors and other officials to be executed by Antonio ...
February 6 – Augustus Magee, U.S. Army Lieutenant and Filibuster, died from a long-standing illness; February 26 – Robert R. Livingston, lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York and a Founding Father of the United States (born 1746) April 19 – Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, chemist, and physician (born 1746)
He enjoined another adventurer and former US Army Lieutenant, Colonel Augustus William Magee, [11] to carry out the mission in the field. William Shaler , later an American consul to Havana, Europe and Algiers, as well as a writer, was attached to Gutiérrez's expedition by the United States government to oversee the revolutionaries' invasion ...