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The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.
Texas Revolution, war fought from October 1835 to April 1836 between Mexico and Texas colonists that resulted in Texas’s independence from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas (1836–45). Learn more about the Texas Revolution, including notable battles.
On March 2, Texas’ revolutionary government formally declared its independence from Mexico. In the early morning of March 6, Santa Anna ordered his troops to storm the Alamo.
Texas achieved independence in 1836 after General Santa Anna signed papers recognizing it while in captivity after the Battle of San Jacinto. For nine years, Texas remained an independent nation, fighting off the occasional half-hearted invasion by Mexico intending to reclaim it.
Texas Independence. Texas’s struggle for independence from Mexico and its annexation by the United States led to the Mexican War. From 1846 to 1848, the United States fought Mexico to acquire land stretching from Texas to the Pacific Ocean. By the 1830s, American settlers in Mexico’s Texas territory outnumbered native Mexicans.
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and was formally signed the next day after mistakes were noted in the text.
On March 2, 1836, Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico. The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed at Washington-on-the-Brazos, now commonly referred to as the “birthplace of Texas.”
By early December Texas forces had forced the surrender of Mexican garrisons which withdrew to the Rio Grande. Santa Anna massed forces to quell the unrest in Texas though his forces were limited due to unrest in other parts of Mexico.
The Fredonian Rebellion (1826–1827) was the first attempt by settlers in Texas to declare independence from Mexico. Mexican suspicions about the United States and Texas were fueled by a report filed by General Manuel Mier y Terán in 1828.
In December 1835, in the early stages of Texas’ war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan (or Texian) volunteers led by George Collinsworth and Benjamin Milam overwhelmed the Mexican...