https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb en-us 2023-01-23 16:31:24 UTC 2023-01-26 19:47:18 UTC hello@padlet.com ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453525673 A free and independent Republic of Texas was officially declared March 2, 1836. Over the course of the next several days, 59 delegates -- each representing one of the settlements in Texas -- approved the Texas Declaration of Independence.]]> 2023-01-23 16:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453525673 ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453529754 On February 24, 1836, with the garrison surrounded and the Texan Army at the Alamo outnumbered, one of the most famous letters in American history was written by William B. Travis.]]> 2023-01-23 16:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453529754 ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453531913 On October 2, 1835, the growing tensions between Mexico and Texas erupt into violence when Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, sparking the Texan war for independence.]]> 2023-01-23 16:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453531913 ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453536170 The Goliad Massacre was a close second, involving in the execution of over 350 Texans who had been forced to surrender to the Mexican army of Santa Anna. was a most known as a frontiersman, congressman and Alamo defender.]]> 2023-01-23 16:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453536170 ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453540836 The siege of Bexar (San Antonio) became the first major campaign of the Texas Revolution. From October until early December 1835 an army of Texan volunteers laid siege to a Mexican army in San Antonio de Béxar]]> 2023-01-23 16:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453540836 ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453543848 The battle of the Alamo was fought over issues like Federalism, preservation of the Antebellum South, slavery, immigration rights, the cotton industry, and above all, money. General Santa Anna arrived at San Antonio; his Mexican army, with some justification, regarded the Texans as murderers.]]> 2023-01-23 16:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453543848 ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453549568 2023-01-23 16:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453549568 ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453551927 The Texans won the final and decisive engagement with Mexico in the Texas Revolution on April 21, 1836 at the Battle of San Jacinto. While the battle only lasted 18 minutes, its ramifications were great.]]> 2023-01-23 16:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453551927 ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453554385 The Runaway Scrape was the name Texians applied to the flight from Texas due east. The Mexican army was coming up the coast from Mexico and that part of Texas was being emptied rapidly. Houston gathered his forces and moved south to try to protect the withdrawal as they moved toward the Sabine River.]]> 2023-01-23 16:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453554385 ellsme9349 https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453556472 Texas intended the agreements to conclude hostilities between the two armies and offer the first steps toward the official recognition of Texas's independence from Mexico.]]> 2023-01-23 16:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ellsme9349/9ave9vjpgdgojlwb/wish/2453556472