• Independence is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population...
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    Texas Independence Day is the celebration of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836. With this document, signed by 59 delegates...
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    War of Independence. They won battles in the beginning and captured many Texas cities from the Spanish that led to a declaration of independence of the...
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    The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted...
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    Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War...
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    Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate...
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  • rogue in search of purpose. Abby and Hoyt's journey takes them to Independence, Texas, a small town with a big future. Katherine McNamara as Abby Walker...
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  • The Texas Independence Trail is a non-profit organization which promotes heritage tourism, economic development, and historic preservation. It is one of...
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    The Texas Independence Referendum Act (HB 3596), commonly shortened to TEXIT, was a failed Texas state legislation which, if passed, would have called...
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    The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in both the engrossed version and the...
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    This doctrine would be revived during the Texas annexation controversy. When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, the United States did not...
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    over Texas. Proposed by the American Legion's Texas Centennial Committee as a fundraising measure for the 100th anniversary of Texas independence from...
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    Texians. The Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas declared its independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution in 1835–1836, when the Centralist Republic...
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  • Independence Heights is a community in Houston, Texas, bordered by 40th Street to the north, Yale Street to the west, the 610 Loop to the south, and Airline...
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  • the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, did Mexico recognize Texan independence. Texas declared its secession from the United States in 1861 to join...
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  • USS Independence, any of seven US Navy ships Texan schooner Independence, an 1832 ship in the Texas Navy during the Texas Revolution Independence County...
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    of Texas independence. To mark the Texas Sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) of Texas's independence in 1986, a flag was created bearing the Texas Sesquicentennial...
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  • Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction disaster film co-written, directed and co-produced by Roland Emmerich and co-written and...
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  • The Texan schooner Independence was one of the four schooners of the First Texas Navy (1836–1838). At the direction of Texas Governor Henry Smith, in 1836...
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    controlled the territory until 1836 when Texas won its independence, becoming the Republic of Texas. In 1845, Texas joined the United States as the 28th state...
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  • One of the most memorable games in Independence Bowl history was the 2000 edition, the "snow bowl" game between Texas A&M and Mississippi State. The game...
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    declared Texas' independence from Mexico and he signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Later, Ellis served in the Republic of Texas legislature...
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  • George Washington Baines (category People from Independence, Texas)
    president of Baylor University, while the university was located in Independence, Texas. He was the maternal great-grandfather of the 36th U.S. president...
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    Sam Houston (category Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence)
    Texian Army. He led the Texan Army to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle in Texas's war for independence against Mexico. After the...
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  • A declaration of independence, declaration of statehood or proclamation of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent...
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    This flag was in use in Texas until its independence from Mexico in 1836. The fourth flag belonged to the Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1845. The Republic...
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    the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and Louisiana State University's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. However, Independence Stadium eventually was chosen...
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    Texian Army (redirect from Army of Texas)
    Republic of Texas win independence from the Centralist Republic of Mexico on May 14, 1836 at the Treaties of Velasco. Although the Texas Army was officially...
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  • Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana. The 47th annual Independence Bowl game featured the Texas Tech Red Raiders from the Big 12 Conference and the California...
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    bloodiest battle in Texas, the Battle of Medina. Thus, Texas was incorporated into the Mexican Independence, and later Texas Independence and its annexation...
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