To: rzborusa who wrote (774502 ) 3/21/2014 11:43:07 PM From: Bilow Respond to Hi rzborusa; Re the Texas revolution, some more details on what it had to do with Mexico at the time.Yucatán, a similar rebellion had begun and was fought off-and-on from 1836 to 1846 . The battle ended in a combined Yucatecan and Texan victory. A scene from this battle is engraved on the cylinder of every Colt 1851 Navy and 1861 Navy revolvers.Gulf and disrupting commerce, because it was thought the Mexican army was planning an amphibious assault on Texas in order to recapture the province. Moore could not fully refit and rearm his ships without expending his own funds when he put in at New Orleans . The government of Texas refused him more funds and Sam Houston ordered him back to Texas so the fleet could be sold. The fleet upon being put up for auction in Galveston, was not sold at that time because the citizens of Galveston rioted thereby preventing the auction. Moore disregarded Houston's orders, and allied himself with the Yucatan government, which was then in open rebellion against the central Mexican government. Yucatan paid Texas $8,000 a month for the services of the Texas Navy. Moore, now fully funded, sailed to lift the Mexican naval blockcade of the port of Campeche. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org Republic of the Rio Grande ( Spanish : República del Río Grande) was an independent nation that insurgents against the Central Mexican Government sought to establish in northern Mexico . The rebellion lasted from January 17 to November 6, 1840 and the Republic of the Rio Grande was never officially recognized.San Antonio , Texas. General Antonio Canales Rosillo traveled throughout Texas to build awareness of the rebellion for which he now fought. He also toured Texas to ask Texans to volunteer to fight his cause. [5] General Canales was in Austin the second half of April 1840, where he met with President Mirabeau B. Lamar . [6] It is said that President Lamar privately supported the new republic’s actions, but felt that public endorsement would hamper Texas’ efforts to secure recognition of its own independence from Mexico. General Canales left Austin for Houston on May 2 to continue to build awareness and seek volunteers. en.wikipedia.org In desperation, President Santiago Mendez offered Yucatecan sovereignty in exchange for military assistance to the governor of the island of Cuba , the admiral of Jamaica , the ministers of Spain and the United Kingdom , but none responded to his pleas. Finally, the Yucatecan delegation in Washington made a formal offer for the annexation of Yucatán to the United States , an argument that appealed to some of the radical expansionists and the Young America movement . [15] President James Knox Polk was pleased with the idea and the "Yucatán Bill" passed the U.S. House of Representatives , but was discarded by the Senate. [16] [17] The war with Mexico had become more complicated than anticipated, and the US Congress did not want a second war with the indigenous of Yucatán en.wikipedia.org
