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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
Magee was besieged for four months. He negotiated with the Spanish military leaders and considered surrendering, but he finally decided to fight. However, Magee's army lost confidence in him, and discord spread among the republican leaders. Magee died on February 6, 1813, following a long illness, and Samuel Kemper succeeded to
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 ...
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 ... Khalimov was a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan before defecting to the Islamic State in ...
Harry Daniels, an attorney for the family of Javion Magee, speaks during a press conference in front of the Vance County Courthouse in Henderson, N.C. on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024.
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)