Wednesday, March 2, 1836: Texas declares its independence
While the defenders were still celebrating the arrival of the thirty-two men from Gonzales, less than 200 miles to the northeast, in the town of Washington-on-the-Brazos, delegates from all over Texas gathered to make history and to give a purpose to the fight at the Alamo.
On that Wednesday, representatives put their names to the document that declared Texas to be free and independent from Mexico. It was the birth of the Republic of Texas. However, the men in the Alamo were unaware of what had taken place at Washington-on-the-Brazos.
There were two representatives from the Alamo garrison among those who signed Texas’s Declaration of Independence. One of them was Samuel Maverick. Maverick would go on to be a major developer in San Antonio and create the Alamo Plaza. Learn more about Samuel Maverick’s involvement with the post-battle Alamo site in my blog post, “THE HISTORY OF THE ALAMO, PART III: FROM FORGOTTEN TO ARMY DEPOT”
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I’ll have to come back to read the rest later.
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