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Texas: Facts, Map and State Symbols - EnchantedLearning.com

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So I've put together this handy guide for you to use, whether you're doing a research paper for class or just prowling the site for fun. Happy trails!

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TPWD kids page describes regions of Texas

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Interesting Video Book For Kids About Texas

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Picture Book For Kids About Texas. A Kids video book about Texas. Learn How to get free kindle Kids books directly from Amazon at http://AReadingPlace.com/Texas. This is adapted from the book: Children's book on Texas: A Kids Picture book about having a baby with Photos and fun Facts.

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Today's Wonder of the Day was inspired by Kai. Kai Wonders, " Why should we remember the Alamo? " Thanks for WONDERing with us, Kai!

Remember the Alamo! It's a famous saying that was heard often in the battles that helped shape the of the western United States. But what did it mean to those fighting those battles?

The Battle of the Alamo took place between February 23 and March 6, 1836. It was a fight in the Texas Revolution . American settlers who moved west into the land we now call Texas wanted a of their own instead of being ruled by Mexico.

A few months before the Battle of the Alamo, these settlers - who were called Texians at that time - had driven out all the Mexican troops from Mexican Texas. The Mexican troops, however, would not go away quietly.

On February 23, 1836, approximately 1,500 Mexican troops led by General Antonio López de Santa Anna attacked the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (what is now San Antonio, Texas). The mission was defended by fewer than 300 Texians under the command of James Bowie and William B. Travis.

Despite the Mexican troops' overwhelming in numbers, the two armies fought off and on for the next 12 days with few casualties . On March 6, however, the Mexican troops advanced on the Alamo in three separate attacks. By the end of the day, nearly all of the Texian defenders had been killed.

General Santa Anna sent a few noncombatant survivors ahead to tell others about the Texians' at the Alamo. The news caused a , and the remaining Texian troops, most settlers, and the newly-formed of Texas government fled from the Mexican Army.

The Texians did not give up, however. Many of them were infuriated by what they thought was Santa Anna's overwhelming during the Battle of the Alamo. Other settlers and adventurers were soon inspired by thoughts of to join the Texian Army.

The and stronger Texian Army - many of them shouting "Remember the Alamo!" - defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. This final led to the end of the Texas Revolution .

In the early 1900s, the Texas Legislature bought the old Alamo Mission and made the Alamo chapel an official Texas State . Today, the Alamo is one of the most popular tourist sites in Texas.

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Today's Wonder of the Day was inspired by Kai. Kai Wonders, " Why should we remember the Alamo? " Thanks for WONDERing with us, Kai! Remember the Alamo! It's a famous saying that was heard often in the battles that helped shape the of the western United States.

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Sam Houston - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com

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Find out more about the history of Sam Houston, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com

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A Texas
Scrapbook

San Antonio's
Military Plaza

Battleship Texas (I & II)

First Flight in Texas

The Texas
Camel Experiment

The Six National Flags
of Texas

Flags of the
Texas Revolution

The Capitols of Texas

The First
State Fair of Texas

Money of the
Republic of Texas

The Texas Rangers

Presidents
of the Republic

The Five Missions
of Old San Antonio

The Texas Constitution

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About Texas and Texans

The Crash at Crush

Texas Baseball
in the Early 1900s
Early Texas
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Heroes of Texas Fiction

Other Tidbits
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The Six National Flags of Texas

Six national flags have flown over Texas since the first European exploration of the region by Cortez in 1519. The six flags are:

Texas Under Spain. 1519-1685; 1690-1821.

Spain was the first European nation to claim what is now Texas, beginning in 1519 when Cortez was establishing Spanish presence in Mexico, and Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda mapped the Texas coastline. A few shipwrecked Spaniards, like Alvar Nunez, Cabeza de Vaca, and explorers such as Coronado, occasionally probed the vast wilderness, but more than 100 years passed before Spain planted its first settlement in Texas: Ysleta Mission in present El Paso, established in 1681. Gradually expanding from Mexico, other Spanish missions, forts and civil settlements followed for nearly a century-and-a-half until Mexico threw off European rule and became independent in 1821. The red and yellow striped Spanish flag after 1785 depicts a lion of Leon and a castle of Castile on a shield surmounted by a crown.

Texas Under France. 1685-1690

Planning to expand its base from French Louisiana, France took a bold step in 1685, planting its flag in eastern Texas near the Gulf Coast. Although claimed by Spain, most of Texas had no Spanish presence at all; the nearest Spanish settlements were hundreds of miles distant. French nobleman Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, founded a colony called Fort St. Louis. But the effort was doomed by a series of calamities: shipwreck, disease, famine, hostile Indians, and internal strife resulting in La Salle's murder by one of his own company. by 1690, France's bold claim to Texas had evaporated. The French flag features a host of golden Fleurs-de-lis emblazoned on a field of white, which was actually the French royal ensign for ships and forts.

Texas Under Mexico. 1821-1836

For more than a decade after Mexico became independent, hardy pioneers from the Hispanic south and the Anglo north flowed into Texas. It was a frontier region for both; Anglo Texans became Mexican citizens. But divergent social and political attitudes began to alienate the two cultures. The final straw: Mexican General Santa Anna scrapped the Mexican federal constitution and declared himself dictator. Texans revolted and won their independence April 21, 1836, on the battleground of San Jacinto near Houston. Mexico's intricate flag pictures an eagle, a snake (an image from pre-Columbian mythology) and cactus on bars of brilliant green, white and red.

Texas as a Republic. 1836-1845

During nearly ten years of independence, the Texas republic endured epidemics, financial crises and still-volatile clashes with Mexico. But it was during this period that unique accents of the Texas heritage germinated. Texas became the birthplace of the American cowboy; Texas Rangers were the first to use Sam Colt's remarkable six-shooters; Sam Houston became an American ideal of rugged individualism. Texas joined the United States on December 29, 1845. The red, white and blue Texas state flag with its lone star (the same flag adopted by the republic in 1839) today flies virtually everywhere: on government buildings, schools, banks, shopping malls, and even on oil derricks.

Texas in the Confederacy. 1861-1865

Sixteen years after Texas joined the union, the American Civil War erupted. Gov. Sam Houston, urging Texans to stay aloof or re-establish a neutral republic, was driven from office. Texas cast its lot with the doomed southerners, reaping devastation and economic collapse as did all Confederate states. But two events fixed Texas and Texans as somehow different in the nation's eyes. First, Texas troops on Texas soil won the final battle of the Civil War, not knowing the south had capitulated a month earlier. Second, returning Texans found a population explosion of wild Longhorns, sparking the great cattle-trail drives that became American legends. The first Confederate flag flown in Texas was the South's national emblem, "The Stars and Bars" of the Confederate States of America, although the later-crossed Confederate battle flag is better known today.

Texas in the US. 1845-1861; 1865-Present

On joining the union, Texas became the 28th star on the U.S. flag. Shrugging aside defeat and bitter reconstruction after the Civil War, the offspring of Texas pioneers marshaled their strengths to secure a future based on determined self-reliance. First was the fabled Texas Longhorn, providing beef for a burgeoning nation. Newly turned topsoil on vast farm acreage yielded bountiful crops. The 20th Century dawned with the discovery of fabulous sources--gushers roaring in at a place called Spindletop near Beaumont. By mid-century, modern Texas industries were sprouting in a fertile climate of advanced technology. Today under the magnificent "Star Spangled Banner," Texas horizons continue to expand, thrusting up to the limitless reaches of outer space.

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A Texas Scrapbook: San Antonio's Military Plaza

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Texas: Facts, Map and State Symbols - EnchantedLearning.com

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TeachersFirst presents an instructional tour of the 50 states, including important facts and highlights of interesting, out of the way places of interest in each state.

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The Alamo: The Alamo is an old Spanish mission located in San Antonio, Texas.

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Texas's geography and landforms, including information on the Davis Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains, Santiago Mountains, Edwards Plateau, Gulf of Mexico, Great Plains - by worldatlas.com

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Official state symbols, emblems, and icons of Texas - places to see in Texas - landmarks, parks, historic markers, cities and towns - learn the culture and history of Texas!