But there was one other passage Childress added to the Texas Declaration of Independence and it turned into a critical piece ...

signed the Texas Declaration of Independence along with several Tejanos, helped draft the first constitution of Texas and served as interim vice president of the Republic of Texas. You write a great ...

In autumn 1835, simmering political tensions in Texas came to a boil. A series of bloody skirmishes over a short span of months would decide the region's future. By the following May, Texans would ...

Brazos, historians have said that this occasion marked the official time and place that Texas declared its independence.

a signer of the Texas declaration of independence, and the author later in his life of Apuntes Históricos (Historical Notes), a book on Texas history. His niece, Juana Gertrudis Navarro Alsbury ...

59 Texian and Tejano representatives at Washington-on-the-Brazos boldly signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Amateur historians can experience those epic events this year on March 2 and ...

There were 56 signers to the Declaration of Independence. The youngest was Edward Rutledge from South Carolina at 26 years old. The oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 70 years old.

If our national holiday were celebrated on July 2, we would have a much more accurate understanding of what America is about. America as a political entity dates to July 2, 1776, not July 4.