Memorial Day is when we pause and honor those who gave their lives for our freedom. Some were famous men who died in battle. Others were unknown soldiers killed in historic battles. How much do you ...

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Memorial Day is when we pause and honor those who gave their lives for our freedom. Some were famous men who died in battle.

Retired professor Stephen L. Hardin has written two standard books of Texas history, one about the revolution, another about ...

But many Texans’ knowledge of the state’s past is focused on what happened during six months in 1836, when the Texas Revolution ... version of the Revolution and the Civil War.

When Texian delegates declared independence from Mexico in 1836 José Antonio ... colonization of Texas by the American settlers, and became a close friend and associate of Stephen Austin, and ...

The Runaway Scrape, an arduous evacuation of a panicked sea of humanity fleeing eastward during Santa Anna’s 1836 ... war for independence was a formative event, contributing to a resilient ...

After the Texas Revolution ... was adopted in 1836, but was replaced in 1838 by the flag we know and love today. 10. Think Dallas and Houston have a feud? The Texas Archive War puts it to shame.

Founded in 1836 by the Allen brothers ... growing pains in the fledgling Texas Republic and a “war” that settled it all. Let’s look back. After white settlers took control of parts of ...

The Texas Revolution ended in 1836, and Shreveport’s first city government ... a plantation owner in Georgia and a veteran of the War of 1812. He was born on Jan. 1, 1804, and attended the ...