What's New?

11/23/2005 - Added the following new topics:

The Turtle Bayou Resolutions
- Manuscript with signatures

The Mier Expedition
- Page from list compiled in Perote Prison showing fate of Fisher's command
- Samuel Hamilton Walker, first-hand account

The 1919 Ranger Investigation

Satanta

12/18/2003 - Added the following new topics:

Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
- Nicolas La Salle Journal, 1682 Expedition

Election return from the Alamo, February 1836

4/9/2003 - Added the following new topics:

Stephen F. Austin
- Commentary on Mexico's independence from Spain, 1823
- Letter about the frustrations of starting his colony, 1824
- Military address on putting down the Fredonian rebellion, 1827
- Letter on his arrest in Mexico, 1834
- Letter from a Mexican prison, 1834
- Circular of the Committee of Safety, advising on the preparations for war, 1835

Mirabeau B. Lamar
- Letter to his brother, eleven days before San Jacinto, 1836
- Address on protecting the frontier from Indian attack, 1839
- Letter on the Santa Fe affair, 1842
- Letter to David G. Burnet on the Mexican War and Sam Houston, 1847
- "Carmelita," a poem by Lamar

Anson Jones
- Instructions to the Texas chargé d'affaires in Washington, D.C., 1842
- Letter discussing the possibility of a treaty with the Indians, 1842
- Letter to J. Pinckney Hendersonon on annexation negotiations, 1844
- Letter on the prospects for the passage of the annexation treaty, 1844
- Letter to Sam Houston on Jones' misgivings on the treaty, 1844

3/8/2002 - Added the following new topics:

The Texas Constitution
- The Texas Constitution of 1876

The Grass Fight
- Report from William H. Jack to Edward Burleson

The Treaties of Velasco
- The Public Treaty
- The Secret Treaty

Republic of Texas Currency

The Archives War
- Complete report of the House investigation

Slavery
- Petition for Emancipation of Liley, 1847
- Sale of 10-year-old Loise, 1849

Annexation
- President Anson Jones' valedictory address on the date of annexation by the United States

9/17/2001 - Added Table of Contents and "What's New?" pages.

Added the following new topics:

The Long Expedition
- James Long Expedition List

The Texas Declaration of Independence
- Original manuscript

The Siege of Bexar
- Letter from Stephen F. Austin to Bowie and Fannin
- Ben Milam's Passport
- Letter from Milam and Burleson
- List of Texan Wounded
- Surrender of General Cos
- Map of the Siege of Bexar
- Joseph Lopez, first-hand account

The Goliad Massacre
- Statement of John C. Duval on the massacre
- Dr. Barnard's list of Fannin's men
- Map of the ground plan at Fort Defiance
- Map of Fannin's Fight at La Bahia
- Patrick Boyles, first-hand account

The Archives War
- Letter from Sam Houston ordering removal of the archives
- Sam Houston's explanation of his actions
- Report of the House investigating commmittee
- Thomas William Ward's claim mentioning Mrs. Eberly

Juan Seguín
- Seguín's orders to forage the countryside for horses, 1837
- Recommendation to appoint Seguín to office, 1837
- Letter from Somervell to Houston on Seguín's loyalty, 1842

José Antonio Navarro
- Autobiography of José Antonio Navarro
- Letter from Stephen F. Austin, 1829
- Letter about Navarro's appointment to the Santa Fe expedition
- Sam Houston's comments on Navarro's imprisonment