REVOLUTION SPAIN SAN ANTONIO DE BÉXAR TEXAS BACK TO THE STORY WITH HIS GRANT STEPHEN AUSTIN TRAVELED TO MEXICO TO START CREATING A TEXAS COLONY WHERE IS MOSES HE S DEAD HELLO EXCUSE ME HOW OLD IS THIS STEPHEN AUSTIN HE S TWENTY FOUR GOVERNOR MARTINEZ I M STEPHEN AUSTIN I COME IN PLACE OF MY FATHER POOR FELLOW I VE GOT THREE HUNDRED FAMILIES READY TO SETTLE HO HO HO SURELY YOU MUST KNOW THE NEWS SENOR AUSTIN YOU RE A GOVERNOR OF NEW SPAIN THOUGH LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT EVERY SETTLER MUST BE BAPTIZED CATHOLIC AND SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO THE CROWN OF SPAIN RIGHT MEXICO IS NOW INDEPENDENT I WAS NOW I M A GOVERNOR OF MEXICO IT S ALL VERY EXCITING I M CONFUSED WHO OWNS MEXICO MEXICO WAS PART OF THE VAST SPANISH EMPIRE KNOWN AS NEW SPAIN BUT THAT GUY SAID MEXICO WAS INDEPENDENT NEW SPAIN SINCE 1521 WHEN CORTÉS CLAIMED VICTORY OVER THE AZTEC EMPIRE THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO HAVE LIVED UNDER SPANISH RULE YES ALLOW ME TO GIVE YOU A ONE PAGE OVERVIEW OF THE MEXICAN
Hello IN 1810 A CATHOLIC PRIEST NAMED MIGUEL HIDALGO BEGAN TO LEAD THE POOR FARMERS OF MEXICO AGAINST THEIR SPANISH RULERS HE WAS CAPTURED KILLED AND BEHEADED AT FIRST WE WERE JUST SMALL GUERRILLA GROUPS BUT WE GREW BUT THE SEEDS OF REVOLUTION WERE PLANTED THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO ROSE UP AND GREW ON SEPTEMBER 27 1821 AFTER A DECADE OF FIGHTING WE CALLED OURSELVES THE EJERCITO DE LAS TRES GARANTIAS THE ARMY OF THE THREE GUARANTEES AN ARMY OF REBELS AND FORMER ROYALISTS MARCHED INTO MEXICO CITY THE NEXT DAY MEXICO WAS INDEPENDENT I WAS ONE OF THOSE GENERALS WHAT WERE THE THREE GUARANTEES INDEPENDENCE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION WOW MEXICO THE ANCIENT EMPIRE OF THE AZTECS AND THE MAYANS WAS FREE FROM SPANISH RULE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE BEFORE THE CONQUISTADORES IT WAS INTO THIS NEWLY LIBERATED WAR TORN COUNTRY THAT YOUNG STEPHEN AUSTIN ARRIVED WITH HIS FATHER S GRANT
I STILL HAVE NO CLUE WHAT TEXAS IS MEXICO S NORTHEASTERN FRONTIER A WILD AND DANGEROUS LAND TEJANO SETTLERS THIS ISN T CALLED TEXAS OR MEXICO THIS LAND IS PART OF COMANCHERIA AND IT BELONGS TO US WE USED TO BE SHOSHONE WE LIVED FAR NORTH THEN THE SPANISH BROUGHT HORSES TO AMERICA LET S TAKE A LOOK AT WHO LIVES IN TEXAS IN THE EARLY 18208 TERRITORIO DE SANTA FE DE NUEVO MEXICO SONORA Y SINOLOA WE TOOK THOSE SPANISH HORSES AND RODE THE COMANCHE THEM DOWN HERE WITH HORSES WE RULE THESE PLAINS THE LIPAN APACHE WE JUST GOT HERE WE VE MOVED UP FROM SOUTH AMERICA AND CROSSED THE RIO GRANDE HUMAN SETTLEMENT WILL SPREAD OUR POPULATION TEXAS IS OURS CHIHUAHUA THE COAHUILTECANS WE VE BEEN HERE SINCE THE 1400S WE VE BEEN WARRING WITH THE COMANCHES FOR THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS DO YOU KNOW WHAT COMANCHE MEANS IT MEANS ONE WHO WANTS TO FIGHT WITH WE WERE HERE FIRST ME ALL THE TIME BEFORE THE APACHES OR THE COMANCHES NUEVO LEON THE NINE BANDED ARMADILLO IS THERE GOING TO BE A BATTLE FOR TEXAS WILL THERE BE HEROES AND VILLAINS PRETTY GIRLS DASHING FELLOWS ROMANCE WILL THERE BE ACTION AND SHOOTING AND EXPLOSIONS YES ALL OF THAT AND MORE
FELIPE STEPHEN AUSTIN AND HIS THREE HUNDRED SETTLERS WEVE BEEN HERE SINCE THE 1700S THERE ARE FEWER THAN 3 000 OF US WE VE WORKED HARD TO CARVE A LITTLE RANCH LAND OUT OF THIS WILDERNESS WE WELCOME SETTLERS ESPECIALLY IF THEY DRAW COMANCHE AND APACHE ATTACKS AWAY FROM OUR SETTLEMENTS WE VE GOT A SLIP OF PAPER THAT SAYS IT S LEGAL FOR US TO SETTLE HERE GET OFFA MY LAND OR I LL SHOOT TEXAS IS OURS WE VE BEEN HERE SINCE THE DINOSAURS WE LL STILL BE HERE WHEN YOU RE ALL DEAD SQUATTERS AND FILIBUSTERS LOUISIANA WE LL SETTLE WHEREVER WE WANT WE DON T NEED NO PERMISSION COAHUILA y TEJAS SAN RATTLESNAKES SAN ANTONIO DE BÉXAR LEAVE US ALONE AND WE WON T BOTHER YOU WE PRACTICE RITUAL CANNIBALISM JEAN LAFITTE S PIRATE BAND BUT ONLY ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS GALVESTON IS MINE IT S MY PIRATE BASE I LIVE THERE IN A GIANT RED HOUSE THE KARANKAWA YOU COULD SAY THAT THE TABLE HAS BEEN SET TABLE IS SOMEBODY GOING TO EAT TEXAS YOU COULD ALSO SAY THAT TEXAS WILL EAT THEM
