Sam Houston

During the formative months leading up the creation of the Texas Revolution, a number of different men, each with different plans of action and supporters held varying degrees of authority and commissions granted by the Consultation that met in Gonzales. (That body consisted of three delegates from each of the Texas municipalities. They rarely met as a complete body and seldom had a legitimate quorum.) They made appointments and decrees, issued orders and then changed them or had them changed the next day by a different group. It was a period of mass confusion.

Texas had an army of volunteers without central leadership, it authorized a Provisional Army and told Sam Houston to create it, but they also added a third element called the Permanent Volunteers which was independent and had a more favorable enlistment contract. At that point the Council authorized an attack on Mexico called the Matamoros Expedition and named Houston the Commander in Chief. He had the title, but he still had no Army.

Consensus was finally reached to form a government in favor of Mexican Citizenship under the Constitution of 1824. The majority quickly shifted and by 2 March 1836 Texas declared Independence from Mexico and the war began in Texas.

They differed on Indian Affairs with Lamar favoring removal or extinction.

Houston favored US annexation and Lamar backed independence.

They differed on fiscal policy and banking.

As a historical footnote, Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar was an unknown Private in the Texas Army who was promoted to Colonel for bravery and given command of the Texas Cavalry the next day at the Battle of San Jacinto by Houston. The two were opposites on every important issue of the day.

211.8 miles

Sam Houston ordered it to be destroyed into tiny pieces!

False. It was Stephen Austin who accepted Mexico's offer of land.

No, it was signed by interiim President David Burnet of the Republic of Texas but was never ratiifiied by Mexico and Texas failed to comply with the provisions listed in the document by keeping Santa Anna as a Prisoner of War.

Sam Houston became president on October 22,1836.

Sam Houston was born in Virginia on 2 March 1793.

He was the fifth of nine children and the fifth son.

His father died when he was 13.

He moved to Marysville, Tennessee when he was 14 and worked as a clerk in his brother's store.

He ran away from home when he was 16 and lived with th Cherokee Indian Nation and learned that language.

He had received no formal training or education.

In 1836 and again in 1841.

The Allen brothers, when they established the settlement on Buffalo Bayou, named it after Sam Houston, the hero of San Jacinto, whom they admired. It was a political move, of course, they anticipated (correctly) that he would become the first president of the Republic of Texas.

He never attended

He lacked troops in adequate numbers, his troops lacked training and equipment and he had no money available to pay them, or to feed and equip them. He withdrew toward the US which extended Santa Anna's supply lines and allowed him time to gain fresh volunteers.

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Getting Texas into the Union and keeping it there.

because he was the leader of the battle of Goliad. and because the victory people preferred a leader

He was a hero of the Revolutionary Texans, a shrewd and popular politician and a recognized Founding Father with proven abilities and strong contacts with the United States.

His final words were said to have been "Texas! Texas! Margaret."

yes

Really He wanted it. He was thinking that if secession went through he would have the Market, at that time, and it would would be his. Sam Houston was a great entrepreneur. The result has gone down in history.

Strongly opposed.

He was wounded during both the War of 1812 and at the Battle of San Jacinto.

No he is not Stephen F. Austin is the "The Father of Texas."

He is the only Anerican to have been the Governor of two different US States.

He replaced felix because he wanted a nother chance to beat the Mexicans. And he wanted to defeat and get refvenge on the Mexicans.