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Augustus William Magee (also McGee); (1789 – February 6, 1813) was a U.S. Army lieutenant and later a military filibuster who led the Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition into Spanish Texas in 1812. [ 1 ] Early life and military career
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 ...
Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Abercromby, General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who was Commander-in-Chief, Ireland; he was also MP for Clackmannanshire, and Governor of Trinidad Lieutenant General William Augustus Johnson , fought as a junior officer in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Resigned 1816; graduated from law school 1822, never practiced; author. 1816 No one graduated this year: 1817 Augustus Roumfort Second Lieutenant, USMC: Resigned 1818; military storekeeper, Ordnance Department 1834-41; mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1863-1866 1818 Richard Delafield: Brigadier General Bvt. Major General
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 ...
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With former U.S. Army lieutenant Augustus Magee and William Shaler, Gutiérrez advertised for armed support in Louisiana and Natchez, Mississippi Territory, calling themselves the Republican Army of the North. [53] The Republican Army of the North gathered in the Neutral Ground, and in early August 1812 they crossed the Sabine River into Texas.
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