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What you already know:

• The Spanish tried to control Texas by building missions, presidios, and small towns

• When the French were no longer a threat, Spain lost interest in Texas

• This led to Spain facing new threats to its control of Texas and the rest of Mexico

Image: Fehrenbach, T. R. Dr. Stanley Siegel, & David Crowley. LoneStar. Glenview: Prentice Hall, 2003.p 91.

Image: Fehrenbach, T. R. Dr. Stanley Siegel, & David Crowley. LoneStar. Glenview: Prentice Hall, 2003. p 83.

• People who began entering Texas from the United States

• Comes from the Spanish word filibusteros which means freebooters or adventurers

• Wanted Texas to become a separate country or a part of the United States

• Looked for adventure or easy wealth

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Jean Laffitte www.texas.discodesigns.com/texas/long/index.shtml

Jane Long

www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/filibusters.htm

Phil Nolan

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Father Miguel Hidalgo

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Dr. James Long

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Henry Perry

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Louis St.Denis

Antonio Gil Ybarbo

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Marguis de Rubi

Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara

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Augustus Magee

Willoughby, Larry. Texas. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and

Winston, 2003, p 139

Willoughby, Larry. Texas Our Texas. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1993. p161

Willoughby, Larry. Texas. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2003. p

135

Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara• Traveled to the United States to raise

money and support Father Hidalgo’s rebellion for Mexican independence

• Secretly supported by the United States• Introduced to U. S. officer, Augustus

William Magee• Together they gathered 130 volunteers to

form the Republican Army of the North

Augustus Magee• Former lieutenant in the United States Army• Passed over for a promotion , resigned and

joined Gutierrez as Colonel• Helped carry on the rebellion of Father

Hidalgo• Helped take over Nacogdoches and marched

to La Bahia• Died during the winter probably from disease

Margues de Rubi• Set out to check northern areas of New Spain and

found:– Louisiana Purchase made Texas an outer part of New

Spain– Spain had neither the wealth nor the power to defend

its missions– Suggested all missions in Texas be abandoned

except San Antonio and La Bahia– Spain form working relations with Comanches– Spanish settlers in East Texas should move closer to

San Antonio for protection from other Indian tribes

Antonio Gil Ybarbo

• Pleaded for permission to lead homesick settlers to San Antonio

• Help build the town of Nacogdoches near an old mission site

Image: Willoughby, Larry. Texas Our Texas. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1993. p155

Philip Nolan

• Mustang trader for the Spanish government• Sold many wild horses or mustangs to the United

States• Suspected of being a spy working for General

Wilkinson• Warned not to return to Spanish land• Ignored warning and returned with 100 soldiers• Fought and was killed

Image: Willoughby, Larry. Texas. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2003, p139

Father Miguel Hidalgo

• Priest who led a rebellion for independence for Spain

• Wanted to set up a new government• Was executed• His followers were defeated by the

Spanish

Louis St. Denis

• Experienced explorer sent to find Father Hidalgo

• Built a trading post that grew into the town of Natchitoches, Louisiana

• Traveled to a Spanish mission along the Rio Grande to trade goods

• Arrested by Spanish commander• Enjoyed his stay and later married the

Commanders step-granddaughter

Jane Long

• Married to Dr. James Long• Left with 6 year old daughter and 12 year old

black servant at Fort near Galveston• Soldiers vacated Fort and left Jane to fend for

herself during the winter• Believed to be the mother of the first white child

born in Texas• Called the “Mother of Texas”

• Fought off Karankawa Indians by firing Forts canon

Dr. James Long

• Believed Texas should be either independent or part of the United States

• Organized an army to invade Texas and captured Nacogdoches

• Traveled to Galveston to get Lafitte’s support• Forced out of Texas but later marched to La

Bahia• Spanish forces attached and Long was forced to

surrender• Shot and died while waiting trial

Jean Laffitte

• Had been a pirate and smuggler in Louisiana

• Raided Spanish ships in the Gulf• Claimed to be fighting for Mexican

independence• Was probably more interested in Spanish

treasure• Forced to leave the Gulf• Continue to raid ships until his death

Henry Perry

• Member of Gutierrez-Magee expedition• Gathered a force of 300 and established a

base on Galveston Island• Marched to La Bahia and demanded

surrender of the Spanish garrison• Spanish forces surrounded his group and

Perry later died after being wounded