PEOPLE OF TEXAS REVOLUTION

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN

• Father of Texas
• Old 300
• Arrested and imprisoned for 2 years
• Defender of Mexican Authority
• Diplomat and Negotiator between Texas and Mexico

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN

• Active Participant in the Texas Revolution

JUAN SEGUIN

• Sent as a messenger to warn Sam Houston about the Alamo
• remained with Houston and fought in the Battle of San Jacinto
• Served as Tejano representative in the Senate of the
• Republic of Texas

WILLIAM B. TRAVIS

• Commander at the Alamo
• fought and died at the Alamo
• wrote famous letter asking for
• reinforcements to come help

DAVID "DAVY" CROCKETT

• Folk hero, frontiersman
• soldier
• politician from Tennessee
• “Kind of the Wild Frontier”
• fought and died in the Alamo

JAMES BOWIE

• pioneer,soldier,knifefighter
• slavetrader land spectulator
• known for the “Bowie Knife”
• died fighting in the Alamo March 6, 1836

GENERAL SANTA ANNA

• President turned Dictator of Mexico
• killed all at the Alamo
• surrendered at the Battle of San Jacinto
• to General Sam Houston
• Lost Texas to Independence 1836

COLONEL JAMES FANNIN

• surrendered at the Battle of Coleto Creek
• leader at Goliad
• executed with his men on Palm Sunday
• by Mexican forces

SAM HOUSTON

• General of the Texas Army (Texas’ George Washington)
• won Texas’ Independence at the Battle of San Jacinto
• Santa Anna surrendered
• Becomes 1st and 3rd President of the Republic of Texas
• ~was against Texas having a Navy because of lack of money

GEOERGE CHILDRESS

• author of the Texas Declaration of Independence

ANSON JONES

• President of the Republic of Texas
• helped annex Texas into the U.S.
• Disliked Native Americans