OUTLINE

THE TEXAS REVOLUTION

I. Phase One: fall, 1835

A. the situation in San Antonio

1. General Martín Perfecto de Cos

B. the situation in Gonzales

1. “Come and take it”

2. the first shots

C. the Consultation

1. votes against independence

2. creates provisional government

a) Henry Smith

b) General Council

D. the Siege of Béxar (San Antonio)

1. Austin in command

2. the Army of the People

3. Austin recalled, Burleson in command

4. Benjamin Milam

5. the fall of San Antonio, December 9

E. Santa Anna into Texas, early February

II. Phase Two: February – March, 1836

A. the Alamo

1. James Bowie

2. William Barret Travis

3. David Crockett

4. “a line in the sand”?

5. the fall of the Alamo, March 6

B. Goliad

1. James Fannin

2. Houston’s strategy

3. surrender

4. massacre

C. the Convention of 1836, March 1-17

1. Declaration of Independence, March 2

2. to relieve the Alamo?

3. provisional government created

a) David G. Burnet, president

b) Sam Houston, commander of all Texas forces

III. Phase Three: the San Jacinto campaign

A. Houston’s strategy

B. Santa Anna’s stategy

C. the Runaway Scrape

D. the Battle of San Jacinto, April 21

E. the aftermath

1. Santa Anna captured

2. Treaties of Velasco