FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Texas Independence (for defeated Santa Anna)
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“The Father of Texas” (for first bringing Anglo settlers into Texas)
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Anahuac (for freeing William B. Travis from jail)
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San Antonio de Valero (for founding San Antonio)
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Grito de Dolores ("Cry of/from Dolores") was the battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence, uttered on September 16, 1810, by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Roman Catholic priest from the small town of Dolores, near Guanajuato, Mexico.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cry of Dolores (Spanish: Grito de Dolores) occurred in Dolores, Mexico, on 16 September 1810, when Roman Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church bell and gave the call to arms that triggered the Mexican War of Independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is generally regarded as the “Father of Mexican Independence.” He was born in a rural area of Guanajuato where his father managed a hacienda. He was an excellent student in both theology and philosophy at the then Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo in present-day Morelia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Stephen Austin arrived in Texas in 1821, the holder of a grant thousands of acres. Other American-born grant holders soon arrived, promoting land sales, but only about 3, 500 Americans settled in Texas between 1825 and 1832.