The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . M I!e X I c( o ARK. F~^A N N I NMercersPeters \Coloni/ \ Colonij ^^? °<-^ 30 Presidio del NorJ,^ ?9 Fisher GerinanCo. Rio s Colony AjftTn,-. — A ue ^7 r^^ / ^ coahuilaXn 1 / ?an* \. / O / NU LEQN -^Velasco GULF OFMEXICO Evo ^^^;^,,. 4 s latamoras CHAPTER VII. THE REPUBLIC OF THE RIO GRANDE. In 1839 there was a movement in Northern Mexico for theestablishment of a Republic to be independent of Lamar declined to commit Texas to the move, butmany in Texas sympathized with it. A force of about 600Texans joined the mov
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . M I!e X I c( o ARK. F~^A N N I NMercersPeters \Coloni/ \ Colonij ^^? °<-^ 30 Presidio del NorJ,^ ?9 Fisher GerinanCo. Rio s Colony AjftTn,-. — A ue ^7 r^^ / ^ coahuilaXn 1 / ?an* \. / O / NU LEQN -^Velasco GULF OFMEXICO Evo ^^^;^,,. 4 s latamoras CHAPTER VII. THE REPUBLIC OF THE RIO GRANDE. In 1839 there was a movement in Northern Mexico for theestablishment of a Republic to be independent of Lamar declined to commit Texas to the move, butmany in Texas sympathized with it. A force of about 600Texans joined the movement and marched into Mexico to bebetrayed by the Mexicans. The names of persons in that en-terprise now on the map are Cameron and Zapata. CAMERON. Ewen Cameron was born in the highlands of Scotland in1811. He came to Texas in 1837 and immediately allied hisfortunes with the Republic. The first opportunity which pre-sented itself for active service came in 1839. In furtheranceof the cause of those liberal Mexicans who were still strugglingagainst the tyranny of their government, he organized a com-pany of which he was elected Captain, and commanded it ina battle known as the battle of Alcantra, in which they werevictorious. The revolut
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