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Texas conventions in 1832 and 1833 submitted petitions for redress of grievances to overturn the restrictions, with limited success. [29] In 1835, an army under Mexican President Santa Anna entered its territory of Texas and abolished self-government. Texians responded by declaring their independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836.
The Neutral Ground. The Neutral Ground (also known as the Neutral Strip, the Neutral Territory, and the No Man's Land of Louisiana; sometimes anachronistically referred to as the Sabine Free State) was a disputed area between Spanish Texas and the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
Consisting of roughly 529,000 square miles (1,370,000 km 2), not including any Texas lands, the Mexican Cession was the third-largest acquisition of territory in US history, surpassed only by the 827,000-square-mile (2,140,000 km 2) Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the later 586,000-square-mile (1,520,000 km 2) Alaska Purchase from Russia in 1867.
H-E-B continues to grow its North Texas real estate portfolio with the purchase of a new property in Rockwall this week. The San Antonio-based supermarket chain bought a total of 12 acres east of ...
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The first railroad built in Texas is called the Harrisburg Railroad and opened for business in 1853. [21] In 1854, the Texas and Red River telegraph services were the first telegraph offices to open in Texas. [21] The Texas cotton industry in 1859 increased production by seven times compared to 1849, as 58,073 bales increased to 431,645 bales. [22]
Hearst, a leading global media company which publishes the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News, is expected to close the purchase by March 31, expanding its media holdings in Texas. The ...
The United States insisted that its purchase also included most of West Florida and all of Texas. [ 64 ] Thomas Jefferson claimed that Louisiana stretched west to the Rocky Mountains and included the entire watershed of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and their tributaries, and that the southern border was the Rio Grande.