Juan Seguin was born on October 27, 1806 to Erasmo Seguin and Maria Josefa Becerra Seguin, in what is now known as San Antonio, Texas. He was the eldest of three son, and even though they did not have formal schooling their father encouraged them to read and write. Seguin started public service at a very young age by working with his mother at his father’s post office. Juan’s father was the Head Postmaster of San Antonio. The postmaster was the person responsible for running the local post office, that person being Erasmo Seguin. When Juan was 19, he married Maria Gertrudis Flores de Abrego. They had ten children, four sons and six daughters. In 1837 Seguín became the first Tejano to serve in the Republic of Texas Senate, a position he held …show more content…
Austin. In October 1835, Juan was appointed to the rank of captain , in the Texas army by Commander and Chief Stephen F. Austin. Juan organized a group of Tejanos soldiers to defend against the Mexican troops in 1835. Then he fought alongside of Jim Bowie in the battle of Concepcion. During the battle of Concepcion the Texans army only suffered one death and one wounded, while the Mexican army suffered fourteen killed and thirty nine wounded.Then after the battle of Concepcion Juan Seguin joined the grass fight to slowen Santa Anna and his army's pase. They stole many pack horses supossedly holded the army's payroll, only to find that it was grass for the Mexican's Animals. After the Grass Fight Seguin and some of his men went to the Almo to help fight, but was sent out as courier to send a message for help from Houston’s army. Sam wouldn’t let Seguin return to the Alamo when he delivered the message, so he stayed and fought with Sam and his army.The battle was only eighteen minutes long but the Texans won. After accepting the Mexican’s surrender of San Antonio on June 4, 1836, he served as the city’s military commander through the fall of 1837. Juan directed burial services for the remains of the Alamo dead during this time. Then Juan Seguin retired to Nuevo Laredo, where his son lived. Juan soon died in Nuevo Laredo on August 27, 1890. After his death and burial his remains were moved to a city named in his
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Juan Seguin was born into a politically prominent family in 1806 to Juan Jose Maria Erasmo de Jesus and Maria Josefa Becerra. From an early age Seguin was entrusted by his father to handle certain business and political affairs. “During the time his father served as Texas deputy of the Constituent Congress, Juan handled the postmaster’s duties, helped his mother tend to the fields, and to some degree acted as intermediary between Erasmo and Austin.” Seguin’s father, Erasmo, worked with St...
Through the study of the Peruvian society using articles like “The “Problem of the Indian...” and the Problem of the Land” by Jose Carlos Mariátegui and the Peruvian film La Boca del Lobo directed by Francisco Lombardi, it is learned that the identity of Peru is expressed through the Spanish descendants that live in cities or urban areas of Peru. In his essay, Mariátegui expresses that the creation of modern Peru was due to the tenure system in Peru and its Indigenous population. With the analyzation of La Boca del Lobo we will describe the native identity in Peru due to the Spanish treatment of Indians, power in the tenure system of Peru, the Indian Problem expressed by Mariátegui, and the implementation of Benedict Andersons “Imagined Communities”.
James W. Fannin took over the garrison at Goliad manning it with 350 untrained volunteers with guns, who would be considered pirates to Mexico. When he heard that they were closer than thought he sent Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett with 187 men in all to man the Alamo, The Mexicans sent a man with a white flag to get them to surrender but they fired a cannon ball at him, the Mexicans were so offended about them firing on a white flag that they vowed to fight to death. The battle of the Alamo lasted thirteen days and on the last day in less than thirty minutes all 187 men were dead. To add insult to injury they killed them, stripped them of their clothes and set their bodies on fire (Nardo, 2011). The final assault on the Alamo was brutal. The Mexicans numbered several thousand while there were only one hundred and eighty-two Texans. This historic event allowed spreading of independence, formation of a revolutionary government and the drafting of a constitution. If Santa Anna had struck the Texan settlements immediately, he might have disrupted the proceedings and driven all insurgents across the Sabine River (Survivor
He informed his officers that they would prepare for an attack before daybreak. On March 6, 1836, Mexican soldiers stormed the walls of the Alamo under the cover of darkness early in the morning. Santa Anna’s troops attempted to occupy jacales (picket and thatch huts) located near the southwest corner of the compound. Small arms fire from inside the Alamo beat back several attacks lasting approximately two hours. After regrouping, the Mexicans scaled the walls and rushed into the compound again. Once inside the Alamo compound, Santa Anna’s troops captured a cannon and turned and blasted open the doors that were keeping the Mexican army out. The desperate struggle continued until the defenders were overwhelmed. After a bloody 90-minute battle, the battle had ended and Santa Anna entered the Alamo to survey the scene of his victory. Santa Anna ordered the bodies of the slain defenders burned.
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J.R. Edmonson, The Alamo Story, From Early History to Current Conflicts (Plano, TX. Republic of Texas Press 2000)
William Barrett Travis, the leader of the Texan defenders requested for help and his requests were ultimately not met much to his frustration. The spirits of the defenders as well as Travis however still kept strong through their commitment to their cause as well as their faith in God. In the end however, Santa Anna’s forces ended up taking over the fort and as a result of their unwavering belief for their independence all the men that fought within the battle were all killed. And so, after March 6th, 1836 the Battle of the Alamo came to a close. As of now, the Alamo serves as a tourist spot and a reminder of the Texan struggle for independence that, as per Sam Houston’s wishes, will be
After leaving his second wife and his life among the Indians Samuel Houston went to Texas in 1832 to begin the most crucial part of his career as a public servant. In Texas he soon became involve in the Texans politics of rebellion, he was a delegate from Nacogdoches at the Convention of 1833 in San Felipe, in there he took sides with the radicals lead by William H. Wharton. In November 1835, he was appointed for major general of the Texas army. He was commissioned alone with John Forbes by the provisional government to negotiate a treaty with the Cherokee Indians in East Texas, establishing peace on that front. On March 2, while serving as a delegate from Refugio to the convention at Washington on the Brazos, was when the Texas Declaration of Independence was promulgated. In addition, Sam Houston received the appointment of major general of the army, becoming the leader organizer of the republic of Texas’s military forces. In his first battle against Mexico General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna made him taste his first Texan defeat defeated. The battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836 would get him revenge and he would become forever enshrined as a member of the pantheon of Texas heroes and a symbol for the age. With the defeat to Santa Ana, the treaty of Velasco was signed and Texas was finally recognized as an Independent Republic, the war with Mexico was over.
Thesis: The nine years of Texas’s independence were long and seemed to be dragged out. Were those nine years unnecessary and could it have been done in a shorter period of time? 13 October 1834 was the first revolutionary meeting of the American citizens who’d settled in Mexico, in the area soon to be known as Texas. The people attempted a movement that soon was laid to rest by the Mexican Congress. Attempts at independence were silenced for the time being and the elections of 1835 proceeded forward.
Texas prides itself on a strong heritage and history. Events that happened when Texas fought to gain independence will forever remain preserved and idolized in the heart of every true Texan. One of the most famous events that occurred during the fight for independence happened at a place that was not well-known and did not hold much importance at the time, but because of the events that occurred there, it will forever be a place of remembrance and pride. This place is known as The Alamo. This paper focuses on the articles written by Brian C. Baur, Richard R. Flores, and Paul Andrew Hutton over The Alamo.
There is a quaint little town sitting at the edge of what is known to most as the South Bay called, El Segundo. Even while being surrounded by LAX airport, the Hyperion Water Treatment Plant, and the Chevron Refinery, this town manages to carry its history and culture all through out its community. We will further discuss A brief history on how this city got its start, what kind of environment does El Segundo offer for families and business large or small and finally, how does it manage to give off that “small town” feeling while being surround by so many large corporations .
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was unquestionably one of the most influential explorers of the New World. Close friend of the Viceroy of New Spain and governor of Nueva Galicia for a time, his influence in the Spanish colonies was great, even before he set off on his great expedition to the north. Exploring the far reaches of the Rio Grande River, nearly reaching the southern border of Nebraska, traveling through the great “Staked Plains”, and being the first Europeans to lay eyes upon the Grand Canyon, his expedition was one of the most expansive and thorough explorations of the New World led by Europeans. Claiming great tracts of land across the Pecos River for Spain,
Many Mexican officials attempted to collect taxes by force from the colonists despite the previous agreement that they would be exempt . As tensions increases, Texas created an army of 1,100 men split into two groups, regulars and volunteers in October of 1835. Houston was made the leader of the regular group of soldiers on paper . Although the commander on paper, The Texian army did not recognize Sam Houston as their commander when he finally joined them, seeing him as not having earned the right because he was not there at the initial skirmishes of Gonzales, Concepcion, the Grass fight, and the storming of Bexar . The nature of the Texian Army was not of unity but of individualism and the problem would present itself to General Houston often
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, a Mexican military general and statesman, brought a large Mexican force with him and began to enter the city of San Antonio. The few men left behind to defend the city retreated back to the Alamo, a fort near San Antonio. Their forces grew slightly when James Bowie, an American frontiersman, and William B. Travis, a soldier from South Carolina, brought in some reinforcements including David Crockett, a famous frontiersman and former congressman, into the Texan forces. These two men, William B. Travis and James Bowie, would eventually become co-commanders at the battle of the Alamo. The newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Texan army, Sam Houston, said that they should abandon San Antonio because of the insufficient troop numbers and firepower (www.History.com). James Bowie and William B. Travis decided to stay and fight against the enemies. They thought if they abandoned the city then the Mexican army would take over all of Texas. As Santa Anna and his men pressed on, the battle started to unfold. For thirteen, long days the few Texans held off Santa Anna’s army from taking over the city. Santa Anna had his men surround the Alamo and begin to attack. With each attempt to take over the Alamo the Texan fought off the invaders from taking over the fort. Santa Anna would order his men to move in for another attack, but with each attack he lost more men. During one of the attacks, William B.Travis declared, “I shall never surrender or retreat! I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country- Victory or Death!” As Santa Anna ordered his remaining troops to attack one last time they breached the Alamo’s walls and began to fight with the Texans. The Texan soldiers began hand-to-hand combat with the Mexican army. Any type of weapon one could find was used, this included