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The Apple Podcast. or wherever you get your podcast. Up next, a story about the only state in our nation to join us as a nation. I'm, of course, talking about Texas. Here to tell the story of how Texas gained its independence from Mexico is Monty Monroe, the Texas state historian.
Take it away, Monty. I think it's necessary to tell just a little bit about. The first group of Europeans that came into this geographical space that we now call Texas. the Spanish conquistadors. Prior to the discovery of the New World, Spain had suffered under an extended period of war.
from about 711 AD when the Moors From Africa, they invaded Spain. They pushed the inhabitants all the way back across the Iberian Peninsula to the vicinity of what is today France. Ultimately, A small group of Spanish Christians defeated the Muslims at the famous Battle of Covadonga. And this marked the beginning of the so-called Reconquista or reconquest period of Spain, which lasted over 774 years. That struggle took place.
It ended basically in 1492 when Isabella and Ferdinand, who had unified the Iberian Peninsula to a large extent. forced the Muslims uh out of Granada. following a 10-year siege. It's in this atmosphere of this general nationalistic expansion that Columbus made his great discovery Of the so-called New World. His discoveries started this period of maritime reconnaissance and inland conquest that brought great wealth to Spain and, of course, led to.
what would ultimately become uh Texas. The conquerors of the Indies, known as the Adelantados, or the ones out front, were also driven by medieval tales about the seven cities of Cibola, the seven cities of gold. Ponce de Leon explored Florida, looking for the fountain of youth, another one of these mythical stories that had been passed down during the period of the Reconquista. Balboa, of course, searched for gold in Central America. Other great explorers, Spanish explorers, moved into the interior.
Cortez, as we well know, conquered the Aztecs by 1521. Francisco Pizarro in 1513 discovered the great Inca Empire and its fabulous wealth. And just to give you an idea, of what we were talking about when we say fabulous wealth. Pizarro with literally a hundred and fifty to a hundred and seventy men. neutralized an Inca force of some eighty thousand.
and they reaped the benefit of roughly 13,500 pounds of gold.
Okay, that's a lot. and over 26,000 pounds of silver. The thing that's remarkable about this whole period is within 20 years, Spain had conquered an empire. larger than Rome's had ever been. Yeah.
By sixteen eighteen, we start to see the establishment of San Antonio de Valerjo. what we call today the Alamo. is established. The Indians in that region didn't necessarily get along with each other, so there were various missions that were established amongst various groups. They flourished for a while, became ranching centers in the center part of what would become Texas.
The Spanish brought in huge herds of cattle and horses. That would ultimately be important after the Civil War for more modern-day Texans. By 1731, you literally have Spanish colonists from the Canary Islands that come to Texas, and they're the ones that found the first. civil jurisdiction within Texas, and it's called the Via of San Fernando de la Bejar, which becomes San Antonio. Yeah.
Ultimately, Spanish interest in Texas starts to wane. There are problems in Spain itself. But bye. Charles III, who was the king of England, Part of the Bourbon dynasty. He was a reformist and he wanted to reform.
Spanish colonial institutions. To do that, he wanted to undermine the existing bureaucracies, to economize things, and of course have more money come back to Spain than stay in the New World. Ultimately, these reforms only had limited success, and that will lead to. The Spanish government looking to change the situation by around 1800. What happened was at the same time, You literally have What we call filibusterers coming in from Louisiana and other places, like Philip Nolan was an American filibusterer.
He was coming in trying to find wild Mustangs. to capture these horses to sell in the United States. He even attempted or was perceived by the Spanish to attempt insurrection. He was ultimately killed near present day Waco. His people were taken captive and they wound up working the mines in northern Mexico.
And so Spanish officials realized. That Texas had economic potential, but they had to have the right kind of folks in there.
Okay? And so Even though Spain's Many century role in what would be the history of Texas was coming to its nadir, they felt like they had to do something. And you're listening to Texas State Historian Monty Monroe telling the story of how Texas became an independent nation. And of course, it began with the Spanish exploration of the Americas. And from there, well, so much more.
This story is not just a story of U.S. history and Texas history. In the end, it's a world geography course as well. When we come back, more of this remarkable story of how Texas became an independent nation here. on our American story.
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Complete disclosures available at public.com/slash disclosures. And we return to our American stories and the story of Texas. When we last left off, Monty Monroe, the Texas state historian, was telling us about the conquerors of the New World, the Spanish. and how they desire to see the large swath of land that would become the Texas we know and love today. developed economically.
Let's continue with the story. It's Spain is starting to lose their grip on Texas. Colonization becomes stagnant. The Spanish realized this and they realized they had to instigate something. to keep their toehold in what was then Pre-hot.
What they did was that they reached out and they created a plan Called defensive immigration. And what they wanted to do was find the right kind of so-called Anglo-Americans. To move into Texas to serve as a buffer not only against the Apache and the Comanche, but also against other Americans. but they wanted to draw them in and make Texas an economically viable place. They look for Americans.
Who could speak Spanish or were willing to speak Spanish, who were Catholic. And they found One such person who had been at that time living in Spanish Louisiana. This man's name was Moses Austin. He was a former Spanish subject. He was a friend with a Texan, the Baron de Bastrop.
And he made a request to bring 300 families. to Texas And settle in land between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers. But ultimately, Austin, Moses Austin, dies in 1821, and he calls upon his son, Stephen F. Austin. On his deathbed, to fulfill his dream of bringing colonists to Texas, and that's what happened.
He issued over 1,500 grants and brought in over 4,000 people, and that was a larger population. than during the entire Three hundred plus year history of Spanish colonial. efforts. By the end of the Mexican period, right at the cusp of the Texas Revolution, you have some. 20,000 immigrants who had come from the Mississippi River Valley in the southern states had come to Texas, and by 1835, the population of Texas, not counting Native Americans, was over 30,000 people.
So that was. a huge influx of people into Texas by that time. But by 1830 The Mexicans decided that they needed to have a little bit more control over Texas, because by then there are a number of things that are occurring that frighten them about the number of Americans coming in and the motivations of the Americans that were coming into Texas. In 1826, the impresario Hayden Edwards had gotten into conflict with some of the older residents, baibarbos, in East Texas. He went over to the United States and Louisiana and he raised an independent army.
He came back, he started the so-called Fredonia Rebellion. Declared part of East Texas independent from Mexico, so the Mexicans started to realize they were going to have a problem. Thankfully, they had the right man in Texas during this period, and that person was Stephen F. Austin. Austin brought together his militia forces from his colony, and he was able to put down the Fredonia Rebellion.
But the Mexicans saw this as clear evidence that Anglo-Texans secretly wanted to join the U.S.
So, what they did was start to clamp down. That brought about a law that would set Texans on a trajectory towards revolution. And that was the so-called Law of 6 April, 1830. It banned Further immigration from the U.S. It prohibited trade with the United States.
There were to be no more slaves imported into Texas. No more land could be taken up along the border with the US. And convict soldiers were to be garrisoned near the borders to enforce immigration policies.
So Texans weren't very happy. The aftermath of this law kind of has parallels to the American colonies because Mexico, like Britain, was attempting to reassert its control over her territory and to tax them. That should sound familiar. And this led to a reaction in Texas, as you might suspect. You had a revolt at Anawak.
The Mexican government had established a new Presidio or fort at Anahuac to guard the coast of Texas and enforce tariff or tax laws. that the Mexican commander at the Presidio there at ANAWAC. Was the Texans thought he was more like a military occupier? His name was Colonel Juan Davis Bradburn. He was an Irishman, but was a Mexican citizen working for the Mexican government.
And he tended to impose arbitrary rule. He impressed supplies from the colonists and slave labor, as a matter of fact. He ultimately arrested a young lawyer by the name of William B. Travis. For trying to release some runaway slaves that were held at the Presidio or the fort there at Anahuac.
And so that caused the Texans to lay siege to Bradburn's garrison in 1832. And there was a standoff, and ultimately, intervention by moderates like Stephen F. Austin. And the rebels pulled back to a little creek called, or a little bio called Turtle Bio, and they drafted a pro-Federalist, in other words, The type of document that you would expect Americans to draft, where you have a dispersal down to local government. not a centralized government, which Mexico is increasingly starting to become, as we'll find out here in a minute.
And they write this turtle bio resolutions in their defense. They said, we're loyal Mexican citizens. We claim loyalty to the so-called Federalist ideas. of the Constitution of 1824, but we're against these increasingly centralist notions that are starting to emerge in Mexico. Ultimately, Mexican authorities replaced Bradburn.
Most of the Texans that were living in Texas at that time condemned these radicals, and the majority adhered to a so-called Peace Party. And this was led by Stephen F. Austin, who is a major player in all things leading up to the Texas Revolution and the establishment of Texas as a republic. He sought to handle grievances through political and legislative means versus through reactionary means, as such had happened with William Travis. In contrast to the War Party, the Peace Party in October of 1832 held a meeting.
Called the consultation of 1832, and they voiced their complaints to Mexican officials ultimately. They wanted the law of 6 April 1830 repealed. They especially wanted tariff reductions. They wanted to lift restrictions on immigration. They wanted more local control.
They wanted independent statehood for Texas. Texas at this time is paired with the Mexican territory of Coila, and the Texans wanted. More independence. They wanted their own legislative body. They wanted to be able to appoint their own government officials and they wanted funding for primary schools.
Well, these resolutions never got past the authorities in San Antonio because the consultation was considered an extra legal or illegal. uh gathering.
Well, because nothing came of these first complaints, the Texans met again at San Felipe for another consultation. But at this consultation, there were new leaders, and these are leaders that will start to have a prominent role in Texas politics. For instance, One of the new leaders of the Consultation of 1833 was Sam Houston. A name that virtually everybody is familiar with. Yeah.
State sovereignty battles over immigration and who controls whose destiny and sovereignty. Questions then they were fighting about questions today. citizens around the world are still fighting about. The story of how Texas became an independent nation, as told by Texas state historian Monty Monroe. The story continues after these messages here on Our American Story.
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When we last left off, Monty was telling us about the Empresario system, a land-grant policy by the Spanish and then Mexican governments, which brought Americans like Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston to Texas. This policy would eventually come to haunt the Mexican government as some Americans began to revolt. In response, Mexico would issue a law that would infringe upon the rights of many. This led to Texans attempting to consult with the Mexican government, and the first attempt would fail.
Nevertheless, they decided to try again. Let's return to the story. At this consultation, there were new leaders, and these are leaders that will start to have a prominent role in Texas politics. For instance, One of the new leaders of the Consultation of 1833 was Sam Houston. A name that Virtually everybody is familiar with.
He was a protege of Andrew Jackson. He had been former governor of Tennessee in 1827. He had been a U.S. Indian agent. Living in the so-called Indian Nations in what is today Oklahoma among the Cherokee.
These guys became vocal and they had different opinions from Stephen F. Austin. They opposed the authoritarian government that had existed in Spain and Mexico. Believing that Mexico, like Spain, was governed by something called the Unholy Alliance of the Church. And the army and the large landowners who tended to dominate this consultation ultimately sent Stephen F.
Austin to Mexico City to present the grievances. They just bypassed the authorities in San Antonio, and by January 1833, Santa Ana is elected the new president. And initially, he embraces Federalist principles and so. Everything seemed fine. He immediately retires, he goes to his home, he installs one of the preeminent liberal.
Federalist Valentin Gomez-Ferrias as the interim president. And Gomez actually worked to weaken the power and privileges of the unholy alliance. Even Santa Ana met with Austin and agreed to revoke the law of April 6, 1830, but refused to separate Texas and Coila. you know, fearing that if you separate those Texans out there, they're going to drift towards the United States.
Well, prior to this breakthrough. Austin had become frustrated down in Mexico. He couldn't seem to get answers to his questions. And he sent a letter back to the Texans telling them to prepare to seek independence on their own.
Well, that letter would ultimately haunt him because by May 1834, Santa Ana comes out of his self-imposed retirement. He returns to power not as a federalist, but as a conservative centralist supporter of the church and the military, and he removes Gomez from office. And Austin's letter is intercepted. Santa Ana has him arrested for treason. He's in prison for a year.
Following his return to power as a centralist, Santa Anna calls for new congressional elections that brought a centralist, conservative majority into the National Congress. It replaces the Constitution of 1824 with something called the Ciete Eleas. Are the seven laws which dissolve the state legislatures and replaced them with military departments led by presidential appointees?
So, what do you have? A military dictatorship that is going to be ruling Texas. Koila and Texas state legislature rejected these centralist orders, but Texans were divided over this call for independence at first. But Austin is released from prison. He makes his way back to Texas.
When he gets there, he throws his support behind the War Party. He's had enough. This former person who was willing to work to achieve the status quo and work within the Mexican government.
now no longer sees that.
Well Santa Anna sent his brother-in-law Martín Perfecto Cost to Texas as the new Commandant General under the Siete Leyes. General Cost arrives on the Gulf of Mexico He marches in from the bay to Goliad. He reinforces the garrison there. Then he heads towards San Antonio. And that leads us to what we call generally in Texas history the first phase.
of the Texas Revolution. In September, the commander of the San Antonio garrison dispatches troops to Gonzales to retrieve a cannon that had been given to the DeWitt colony for protection against the Indians. The colonists refused to turn the cannon over and in a famous confrontation, the settlers Stretch a banner across the cannon that reads, come and take it. and then they fire on the Mexican troops. When the Mexicans ultimately withdraw, the Texans claim victory.
And that you can see people going up and down the road with window stickers now in Texas that say, come and take it. And that harkens back to this confrontation. A week after this incident at Gonzales in the DeWitt colony, troops under Captain George Collinsworth and Ben Milam. Take to Presidio at Goliad. That victory effectively blocks any water retreat for general costs in the Mexican troops.
So by the end of October, the Texas Volunteers start to amass. They unanimously elect Stephen F. Austin as their first commander-in-chief of Texas Volunteers. And they march from Gonzales to Bejar and they surround COS in San Antonio.
Well a number of things happen. In December, Ben Milam and Ed Burleson defeat Cos at the so-called Battle of San Antonio and force him to retreat overland to Mexico. Remember, COS is the brother-in-law of Santa Anna. Milam, who was a very capable commander, was killed during this three-day house-to-house battle. Ultimately, after the battle, Sam Houston sends Jim Bowie, another important name in early Texas history, to destroy the Alamo in San Antonio and take the guns from the Alamo to Gonzalez.
And shortly thereafter, another famous individual arrives in Texas, and that's Davey Crockett. He brings with him about a dozen Tennessee volunteers. And David Crockett, as we know, was a great frontiersman, had a reputation within the United States as a great frontiersman. He had been a congressman, he had lost his congressional seat. He said, You folks go to hell, I'm going to Texas.
Travis and Bowie prepared defenses against Santa Anna, who they knew would be coming. He had professed. that he has his intention to run every American out of Texas by this time by February. Yeah. Santa Ana Arrives in San Antonio with some 6,000 troops and he immediately lays siege to the old mission and on March the 6th.
Four days after. Texas independence is declared at Washington on the Brazos in the Austin colonies, there at San Felipe. Santa Anna attacks the small garrison there at the Alamo. Following the bugle call of the De Gueo, which was a Moorish tune for taking no quarter, Santa Ana attacks the Alamo with some 1,800 troops. All these numbers are subject to argument and debate amongst historians.
The Texans numbered somewhere between 182 and 189. They repulsed this first wave of attackers, but were ultimately overrun. The battle lasted about 20 minutes. The slaughter lasted for another hour or so. Only Susanna Dickerson and her little daughter, Travis' slave, and families of roughly nine Tejano defenders were spared.
Davy Crockett of Tennessee survived the battle. only to be summarily executed outside of Santa Anna's tent.
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nearly every defender there would be killed or executed. Let's return to the story here again. Is Monty Munro.
Now There was a problem in all of this. Santa Ana's Diversion at the Alamo. He didn't have to go to Behar. He really didn't, but what he was trying to do was recoup. General Cos's honor and the family honor.
He didn't have to go to Behar in the first place. He should have gone to San Felipe because the bulk of the Anglo population was situated there. But He Diverted himself in at the Alamo, and this bought time for Sam Houston. to train his meager volunteer troops, And it had a great psychological effect on the Texans at that time. They wanted to reap revenge.
And so his delay in San Antonio, I'm talking about Santa Ana now, delaying in San Antonio for three weeks after the battle. In fact, It makes the Battle of the Alamo. One of the most important turning points in the war for Texas independence. There were other bouts at Goliad. Yeah.
Houston had retreated eastward. He had Colonel James Fannin. Abandoned the Goliad Presidio in advance of the arrival of General Urreo, who was one of Santa Anna's lieutenants, but Fannin, for whatever reason, lingered too long. He was ultimately defeated at the Battle of the Prairie, and his men were captured. And a week later, acting upon the orders of Santa Anna, Some 350 of Fannin's troops, or prisoners of war, were massacred.
Some of Fannin's guys were able to escape into the woods. A few, a few of the prisoners of war were saved by the pleadings. of the so-called wife of one of the Mexican Army officers, Senora Francisca Alvarez, the so-called angel of Goliad. The Angel of Goliad ultimately would be abandoned by her Mexican officer husband. She would move to Matamoris and live with her family.
And some of those children would be brought. by Captain King, Richard King. From Matamoris with cattle up to Texas, and they would help found the King Ranch, and there are many. Caninos, the king's people. that are descendants of Francisca Alvarez.
Now Uh After Goliad, Houston, when he learns that Fannin had been captured, he moves eastward towards the Louisiana border. And his retreat and the news of Santa Santa Ana's troops on the march prompted fear and a mass exodus amongst the settlers of central Texas. This was called the famous runaway scrape. There was crowding at the streams and the crossings, and it was raining and it was muddy. And usually, at this time of year, it's always rainy and drizzly in that part of the state.
And there were epidemics, cold weather, and flooded rivers and misery. And the volunteers who were at the river crossings felt sorry for the women and the children who were trying to escape. the Mexican army coming towards them. Many soldiers and officers and settlers, even the president of Texas, called Houston a coward. But Houston was buying time so he could train his 1,400 ill-disciplined troops.
Santa Ana ultimately chases the rebel government from San Felipe all the way to Houston, or what would become, or what was Harrisburg then, and would ultimately become. the city of Houston. Uh, Sam Houston moves a little bit further north. He encamps upriver from San Felipe on the Brazos River. And it's here that he takes time to train his army.
When he learns that Santa Ana had driven the government, the Texas government, from Harrisburg to Galveston and was marching to capture them, Houston decides to move across the Brazos River. By this time, he's received the so-called Twin Sisters cannons from Cincinnati, Ohio that were a gift. He turns south. in pursuit of Santa Anna, Santa Ana moves back to an encampment on Buffalo Bio. Just south of its junction with the San Jacinto River, and that brings us to the culminating event of the Texas Revolution.
Houston moves his army of about 900 or so men. less than a mile from Santa Ana. He has a man by the name of Deaf Smith, who was deaf. County is named after him. Uh he had captured a Mexican courier and uh He knew where Santa Ana was, but Houston, on the morning of April the 21st, he has Def Smith.
blow up the bridge over Vince's bio. which was the only escape route for either army, either Santa Ana's army or Houston's army. The Fate of Texas. would be decided. It's San Jacinto or San Jacinto, as some people say.
On the morning of the 21st, General Cos arrives in the Mexican encampment with a reinforcement, bringing the Mexican contingent to about 1,500 troops. because COS had had them on an all-night forced march. Santa Anna allows the troops to rest and take a siesta. And it's right at this time after consultation with his Houston had been playing this all close to his vest, but finally he has a council of war with his officers to determine what would happen at San Jacinto. They decide on a surprise attack which occurs between 3.30 and 4 p.m.
while the Mexican Army is resting. And cloak. By a slight rise between these two camps, right where the obelisk is today, down at San Jacinto, the San Jacinto Monument. Houston's troops got very close to Santa Ana's army. And soon the Mexicans are surprised by Texas troops yelling, remember the Alamo, remember Goliad.
And in 18 minutes the Texans had control of the Mexican camp and the battle was over. but the slaughter. continued much longer. because the Texans wanted revenge. And in the end, the Texans killed 630 Mexicans and took 720 prisoners.
The Texans lost nine men and thirty-four wounded, including Houston. who was shot in the leg, Santa Ana was nowhere to be found. When the Texans attacked, he was distracting himself with a so-called mulatto slave girl who ultimately became the inspiration for the song. the yellow rose of Texas because of the so-called yellow complexion of her skin. Santa Anna was captured the following day.
Many in the army wanted to hang him immediately, but Houston. had other plans for the so-called Napoleon of the West. Santa Anna was forced to sign the Treaty of Velasco. Actually, there were two. There was a secret treaty and there was a public treaty.
And basically they stipulated that the hostilities with Texas were over. that Texas was an independent republic. that the prisoners were to be exchanged and that Santa Ana would leave and never return. Santa Anna promised to convince the Mexican Congress to ratify the treaty. Texas would remain an independent republic.
and Mexico could do little about it. This period distinguishes Texas from other states of the Union. And when I say the Union, I'm talking about the United States, because Texas goes through a period as an independent nation prior to becoming a state. And a terrific job on the storytelling and production and editing by Monty Montgomery. and a special thanks to Texas State Historian Monty Monroe.
And what a story he told. And it turns out. at the Battle of the Alamo.
Well, it was a short-term win for Santa Ana and his army. But in the end, the three-week delay. and the revenge factor. Both played a part. in Texas's epic win.
at San Jacinto. The fate of Texas in that battle hung in the balance. And in eighteen minutes Texans controlled the camp. and over six hundred Mexicans would be killed. Then to Anna.
forced to the negotiating table. made the claim. Texas. was an independent nation and would be left alone. And by the way, this is the true difference between Texas and Texas.
And the other states in this country, and why Texas is always referred to as a state that's different. And why Texans, well, in the end, carry themselves a bit differently. Because in the end, Texas. is a nation and a state. The story of Texas, how it became an independent nation.
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