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During the invasion, the Mexican Congress had granted war powers to Vicente Guerrero, making him essentially a dictator. 1830: April 6 – Mexican president Anastasio Bustamante signs a series of laws aimed at Texas. Among the actions taken were an order for Texas to comply with the emancipation proclamation or face military intervention.
Texan Iliad – A Military History of the Texas Revolution. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73086-1. OCLC 29704011. Huson, Hobart (1974). Captain Phillip Dimmitt's Commandancy of Goliad, 1835–1836: An Episode of the Mexican Federalist War in Texas, Usually Referred to as the Texan Revolution. Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann ...
The San Jacinto Monument is a memorial to the men who died during the Texas Revolution. Although no new fighting techniques were introduced during the Texas Revolution, [317] casualty figures were quite unusual for the time. Generally, in 19th-century warfare, the number of wounded outnumbered those killed by a factor of two or three.
Texian Iliad – A Military History of the Texas Revolution. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73086-1. OCLC 29704011. Menchaca, Martha (2001). Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans. The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture ...
In 1827 and 1829, the United States offered to purchase Mexican Texas. Both times, President Guadalupe Victoria declined to sell part of the border state. [2] After the failed Fredonian Rebellion in eastern Texas, the Mexican government asked General Manuel Mier y Terán to investigate the outcome of the 1824 General Colonization Law in Texas ...
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-532-5. New York: Free Press, 2004; Henson, Margaret Swett (1982). Juan Davis Bradburn: A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-135-3. "The Anahuac Disturbances", The Handbook of Texas Online
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The tax resistance by foreign miners was successful. The tax was repealed by the end of 1850, though a smaller ($4/month) tax was reapplied to Chinese miners in 1852, and some particularly unscrupulous tax collectors continued to extort the tax from foreign miners even when it was no longer legal to do so.