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Title: Proclamation of Sam Houston, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Texas
Identifier: foth_0261
Creator: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Dates: 1835-12-12
Box: BC OB 1830-1835
Description: Sam Houston's call for volunteers made on December 12, 1835, at Washington, Texas.

Title: Provincial Deputy Ambrosio María de Aldasoro to Texas Governor Antonio Martínez
Identifier: foth_0003_multipage
Creator: Aldasoro, Ambrosio María de
Dates: 1821-01-17
Box: 2s135
Description: This official letter to Texas Governor Martínez relays permission for a group of "Missourians," including Moses Austin, to settle in Texas. The Austin Colony launched the movement of Anglo American settlers to Texas at a time of transition from Spanish to Mexican rule.

Title: Register of Natchez Landings
Identifier: foth_0424
Dates: 1836-06-20
Box: 2e539
Description: Natchez, Mississippi, served as a port through which many traveled to Texas. On June 22, 1836, a boat from Louisville registered in Natchez as carrying 250 volunteers bound for Texas.

Title: Relación de los Gefes y oficiales que cayeron prisioneros en la acción de San Jacinto el 21 de Abril de 1836
Identifier: foth_0378_multipage
Topic: Battle of San Jacinto (Texas : 1836)
Dates: 1836-06-06
Box: 3w22
Description: Topping this official list of commanders, officers, and wounded taken prisoner at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, were the "Most Excellent Señor President" [Santa Anna] and his generals Cós and Almonte.

Title: Report
Identifier: foth_0181_multipage
Creator: Mier y Teran, Manuel de
Dates: 1828
Box: 3n180
Description: "Noticias de las tribus de salvages conocidos que habitan en el Departamento de Tejas..." Mier y Terán prepared this report as part of Mexico's effort to establish an official boundary between the United States and Mexico. The report documents the Indian tribes who were known to inhabit Texas, with the number of families that composed each tribe, the area in which they lived, and the fields in which they camped.

Title: The Republic of Texas is no more
Identifier: foth_0585
Dates: 1846-02-19
Description: Lithograph illustrating the annexation ceremony at which Anson Jones, as last president of the Republic of Texas, lowers the Republic's flag.

Title: Resolution stating support for Mexican government by the District of Mina
Identifier: foth_0610_multipage
Dates: 1827-01-04
Box: 2a151
Description: Residents of the District of Mina in Austin's Colony resolve to support the government of Mexico and speak against the rebellion at Nacogdoches.

Title: Resolutions of Loyalty
Identifier: foth_0219_multipage
Creator: Battle, William M
Dates: 1827-01-06
Box: 2a151
Description: William M. Battle, alcalde for the district of San Felipe, issued a statement declaring the inhabitants of San Felipe to be "satisfied with the government of their adoption" and denouncing the insurgents at Nacogdoches.

Title: Richard Ellis to Sam Houston
Identifier: foth_0263
Creator: Ellis, Richard
Dates: 1836-03-05
Box: 3n199
Description: On March 5, 1836, Richard Ellis, president of the Convention of 1836, conveyed to Houston his appointment as commander-in-chief of the Armies of the Republic of Texas. Ellis urged Houston and "The Gallant Patriots of this Nation now under arms" to press forward "to victory and glory." Note that this letter is one day prior to the final defeat of the Alamo.

Title: Rio Grande and Texas Land Company
Identifier: foth_0113
Creator: Rio Grande and Texas Land Company
Dates: 1834
Box: BC OB 1830-1835
Description: The Rio Grande and Texas Land Company issued certificates indicating the right to locate in what had been Beale's River Grant and the Woodbury Grant.

Title: Sam Houston to James K. Polk
Identifier: foth_0580_multipage
Creator: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Dates: 1845-09-29
Description: With the annexation process underway, Sam Houston offers his service to President Polk in the event of an invasion of Texas by Mexico.

Title: Sam Houston to Michael Crossley
Identifier: foth_0481_multipage
Creator: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Dates: 1836-09-12
Description: This letter illustrates Commander in Chief Sam Houston's concern with maintaining good relations with the Indians living in Texas, while maintaining a good frontier defense.

Title: Sam Houston's inaugural address
Identifier: foth_0460_multipage
Creator: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Dates: 1836-10-22
Box: 2.325/D40c
Description: Houston prepared this draft for his inauguration as first president of the Republic of Texas after the first national election in the fall of 1836.

Title: Santa Anna to Vicente Filísola
Identifier: foth_0380_multipage
Creator: Santa Anna, Antonio López de 1794-1876
Topic: Battle of San Jacinto (Texas : 1836)
Dates: 1836-04-22
Box: 3m11
Description: General Santa Anna wrote to General Vicente Filísola the day after the battle of San Jacinto, telling of his capture by the Texas army and ordering Filísola to remove the Mexican army beyond the Rio Grande.

Title: Signature page of the Secret Treaty of Velasco
Identifier: foth_0395_multipage
Dates: 1836-05-14
Box: 3g483
Description: Texas President David G. Burnet and General Antonio López de Santa Anna signed two treaties on May 14, 1836, following the Mexican army's defeat at San Jacinto. The "secret" version promised Santa Anna's immediate freedom with certain qualifications. Neither Texas nor Mexico honored the treaties.

Title: Soberano Congreso General de la Federacion Mexica [Memorial to the Congress of the United Mexican States]
Identifier: foth_0236
Dates: 1833-04-13
Box: 2a153
Description: Spanish version of the Memorial to the Congress of the United Mexican States, signed by David G. Burnet (president of the committee formed to write a memorial), Thomas Hastings, and William H. Wharton, president of the Convention of 1833.

Title: Sobre el Establecimiento colonial. . .
Identifier: foth_0005_multipage
Creator: Government of Mexico
Dates: 1823-03-20
Box: 2a149
Description: With the signing of this document on March 20, 1823, the government of Mexico granted Stephen F. Austin the right to settle three hundred American families in Texas. Such permission followed Mexico's passage of a general colonization law on January 4, 1823, which offered heads of families a league and a labor of land (4,605 acres) and provided for agents, called empresarios, to promote immigration.