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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 ...
Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) or the Third Indian War [1] was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain; it took place during the reign of Anne, Queen of Great Britain. In the United States, it is regarded as a standalone conflict under this name.
But, as the prisoners were marched out of town by Captain Antonio Delgado, they were halted, tied to trees and killed. On April 17, the Republican Army drafted a declaration of independence of the state of Texas as part of the Mexican Republic and adopted a solid "Green Flag" for a banner. Gutiérrez declared himself governor of the new state. [6]
Juan Carlos, Prince of Spain: None 22 July 1969 Appointed heir to the throne 22 November 1975 Head of State died, became king Infante Felipe, son Juan Carlos I: Felipe, Prince of Asturias: Son 22 November 1975 Father became king 19 June 2014 Father abdicated, became king Infanta Elena, 1975–2005, sister Infanta Leonor, 2005–2014, daughter ...
Such a government was seen as an alternative to independence by many in New Spain, Central America, the Caribbean, Quito, Peru, Upper Peru and Chile. Yet the news of the restoration of the " Ancien Régime " did not initiate a new wave of juntas, as had happened in 1809 and 1810, with the notable exception of the establishment of a junta in ...
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between supporters of the French Bourbons and the Austrian Habsburgs.
Spain and Great Britain agreed to not establish settlements and allowed free access to Nootka Sound on the west coast of what is now Vancouver Island. Nevertheless, the outcome of the crisis was a humiliation for Spain and a triumph for Britain, as Spain had practically renounced all sovereignty on the North Pacific coast.
The Congress did allow Texas the option of forming its own state "'as soon as it feels capable of doing so.'" [7] The new state, the poorest in the Mexican federation, [9] covered the boundaries of Spanish Texas but did not include the area around El Paso, which belonged to the state of Chihuahua and the area of Laredo, Texas, which became part ...