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In Austin, Texas, a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats summers ( they winter in Mexico ) under the Congress Avenue Bridge ten blocks south of the Texas State Capitol.
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Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas.
* Austin County, Texas ( note that Austin, Texas, is located in Travis County, Texas )
* Stephen F. Austin ( 1793 – 1836 ), American politician, founder of Texas
* Austin College, Sherman, Texas
* University of Texas at Austin, flagship institution of the University of Texas System
* USS Austin ( 1839 ), a sloop-of-war ( originally in the Texas Navy )
Johnston's tomb in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas | Austin, Texas
In 1866, a joint resolution of the Texas Legislature was passed to have his body reinterred to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin The re-interment occurred in 1867.
Austin and colony
* In 1854, Jesse M Mercer and others organized a colony near the future settlement of Newburg in Comanche County on lands earlier granted by Mexico to Stephen F. Austin and Samuel May Williams.
The town was the social, economic, and political center of the early Stephen F. Austin colony.
Founded in 1824, as San Felipe de Austin, the town served as the capital of Stephen F. Austin's first colony and the founding spot of the Texas Rangers.
Bailey would not give up his home even though Stephen F. Austin ordered him to leave the Austin colony.
As a part of the Stephen F. Austin colony, James Winn acquired in 1831 ; the present townsite was included in this tract.
The land where the city of Giddings now stands was part of the land granted to Stephen F. Austin in 1821 for a colony in Spanish Texas, and later became part of the Robertson Colony.
At Stephen F. Austin ’ s insistence, the petition of the citizens to be attached to his colony was finally approved in August, 1828.
The alcalde, George Orr expressed the gratitude of the Atascosito District as the approval to be in the Austin colony enabled the area citizens to obtain proper grants and titles to their lands, which was the purpose of the census and the attachment.
The southern boundary was a colony overseen by Stephen F. Austin, the first empresario in Texas.
The remains of Pond Farm artists ' colony ( dating from the 1940s ) are also included in the Austin Creek SRA.
His son, Stephen F. Austin, led the colony to a now sovereign Mexico, and in time, the settlers would demand autonomy and win independence from the Mexican ruler Antonio López de Santa Anna thereby establishing the Republic of Texas.
Austin was born in Durham, Connecticut to a family that can be traced back to Richard Austin, who arrived on the ship " Bevis " in Massachusetts colony in 1638, only a few years after the colony was founded.
On his return to Texas in July 1823, Austin established San Felipe de Austin as the new headquarters for his colony.
Stephen F. Austin was the first empresario to establish a colony in Mexican Texas.
In 1823 Austin created a company of men who would patrol his colony and protect the colonists from Native attacks and to defuse internal issues.
But Moses Austin died before he could begin his colony, and Mexico achieved its independence from Spain in September 1821.
On August 22, the ayuntamiento at San Felipe de Austin ( the capital of Austin's colony ) called for each district to elect five delegates.
The southern boundary was a colony belonging to Stephen F. Austin, the first empresario in Texas ; he had received special permission to establish his colony several years previously.
Austin and Mexican
* Austin TV, a Mexican post-rock band
* 1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin
La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1991.
* 1832 – Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
The new Mexican President, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, approved many of the proposals, but refused to agree to separate statehood ; Austin was jailed when he wrote a letter advocating that Texans act unilaterally on statehood.
* Zingg, Robert, Behind the Mexican Mountains, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2001, ISBN 0-292-79808-3
* 1827 Mexican government grants Stephen F. Austin his third " Little Colony ," headquartered at Mina ( Bastrop ) which gave offshoot to Travis County.
: Sam Houston moves the government of the Republic of Texas from Austin to Houston when Mexican troops invaded San Antonio.
A portion of the county was included in Austin ’ s grants from the Mexican government.
* John Austin ( soldier ) ( 1801 – 1833 ), active in early settlement of Mexican Texas
Besides the mythical Tamoanchan, Mexican historian and scholar of Mesoamerican belief systems Alfredo López Austin identifies several sacred sites that were historical localities associated with Tamoanchan.
** colonization with Stephen Fuller Austin ’ s “ Old Three Hundred ” or by the authority of the Spanish, Mexican, or Texas Republican governments,
Stephen F. Austin became an " empresario ," receiving contracts from the Mexican officials to bring in immigrants.
In May 1831, upon his arrival in Mexican Texas, a part of northern Mexico at the time, Travis purchased land from Stephen F. Austin and began a law practice in Anahuac.
Stephen F. Austin formed an army of 500 men to march on the Mexican forces in San Antonio with the cannon that had precipitated the fight.
An hour after the battle ended, Austin arrived with the rest of the Texian army to begin a siege of San Antonio de Béxar, where General Martín Perfecto de Cós, the overall commander of Mexican forces in Texas, and his troops were garrisoned.
During the Siege of Béxar, Burleson served as the second-in-command to Gen. Austin, and in November, 1835 he was elected Major General of Texas Volunteers and took command of the Volunteer army besieging San Antonio de Béxar and received the surrender of Mexican general Martín Perfecto de Cos.
The food became popular in Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants in Austin and San Antonio.
After having been held in a Mexican prison for over 18 months, a newly released Austin returned to Texas with stories of what he had seen in the Mexican capital, and on September 19, 1835 he issued a call to arms.
As part of the 8th Texas Congress, Maverick and his colleagues met at Washington-on-the-Brazos rather than at the state capital, Austin, which was vulnerable to Indian and Mexican raids.
The rangers were founded in 1823, when Stephen F. Austin employed ten men to act as rangers to protect 600 to 700 newly settled families who arrived in Texas following the Mexican War of Independence.
The Mexican commander during the conflict, Domingo de Ugartechea, tried to stop the Texians, under John Austin, from transporting a cannon up the Brazos River to attack the city of Anahuac.
When presented with this request, several Mexican officers explained to Austin that the laws prevented them from turning the men over to civilian authorities.
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