Sunday, April 19, 2015

Timeline of Definitive History of Texas

Here is a rough sketch and some research points for the Definitive History of Texas up to the American Civil War. (Again this is a farcical account and pseudohistorical).

  1. Prehistoric Texas
    1. Colvis Culture, Folsom Culture, Bison Latifrons
    2. Hueco Tanks
    3. Various Indian Tribes fighting for supremacy
    4. When the Spanish arrived the Pueblo, Mound Builders and the remnants of the Teotihuacan Empire are there)
  2. The Age of the Conquistadors (1520 - 1689)
    1. Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
    2. Narvaez Expedition
    3.  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
    4. Estevancio - important because he fathers many children who form a city. The Chakwaina is developed after him
  3. The Five Years of France
    1. Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
    2. Fort Saint Louis
    3. Jean Gery, French deserter and god of the Coahuitecan
  4. Spanish Texas
    1. Founding of San Antonio
    2. Robeline, Louisiana (Nuestra Senora del Pilar de los Adaes)
    3. War of the Quadruple Alliance
    4. Spanish settlers vs. Apache, Comanche, Tonkana, etc. The enslavement of the descendants of Estevancio
    5. Louisiana Purchase
    6. First Spanish-American War
      1. A lot of sabre rattling, raids in both territories, no pitched battles
      2. Ends in the Adams-Onis Treaty (Historical except that Louisiana west of the Mississippi River remains in Spanish hands, including New Orleans. Consequently, Baton Rouge becomes an instrumental city for the US both because of the invention of the steamboat and as a military city. Also the small city of Metairie becomes another major military city in the US as it is directly opposite New Orleans)
  5. Mexican War of Independence (Mexican Texas)
    1. Empresarials - Add the Stone Family to this
    2. The Slave Battle of 1831, Mexican president crushes the Texans and frees all of the slaves
    3. Convention of 1832, 1833
  6. Texas Revolution/Republic of Texas
  7. Mexican-American War
    1. US Congress votes to annex the Republic of Texas (narrow majority, northern in favor and southern not as Texas no longer has slaves)
    2. Mexico invades Texas and marches up to Baton Rouge crushing combined Texan/American forces
    3. Battle of Baton Rouge
    4. Mexican Retreat
    5. Texas decides not to join the union, but is debt riddled. They cede Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma & Wyoming to the US, but not New Mexico and California as the US wanted.
    6. Congress, enraged by the Texans refusal to join the union after the Mexican-American War and their side treaty with Mexico for what would have been New Mexico and Southern California passed that no Americans could emigrate to Texas. The Republic of Texas thus stretched from New Orleans to the East up through the Texas panhandle and cut a line from there to Albuquerque, NM down to Phoenix, AZ and West to San Diego and occupying Baja California. Most Americans obeyed this order, starving The Republic of Texas of vastly needed manpower to work and occupy their newly won territory.
    7. The Great German/Czech Migration
  8. The US Civil War

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