Probably every Texan is aware of the Six Flags that flew over Texas. Those flags were: Spain’s flag, 1519-1685 and 1690-1821; French flag, 1685-1690; Mexico, 1821-1836; Republic of Texas, 1836 ...

Texas Flags serves as a guidebook for the exhibit “Texas Flags, 1836—1945,” which is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through April 28. From the March 2002 Issue Subscribe Home ...

In December 1836 the Texas Congress, heady from victory against Mexico, claimed the republic’s boundaries included “the mouth of the Rio Grande, thence up the principal stream of said river to ...

Members of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas-Sidney Sherman Chapter, the founding chapter of the organization, spent ...

The Mexican Federal Republic 1821 – 1836. Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, and the region of Texas became Mexican territory.

The Lone Star flag, approved in its red, white and blue glory by the Texas Congress in 1839, replaced an 1836 national flag for the republic's naval service that much more closely resembled the ...

It was the flag of the Republic from 1836 to 1839. At the same time, the Congress adopted a Texas Navy flag which had been officially recognized as early as April 9, 1836, by President Burnet.” ...

SAN ANTONIO — Flags were lowered and prayers were said in the myriad languages of the Alamo’s 1836 defenders on Friday as the Daughters of the Republic of Texas ended their 110 years as… ...

Books. 1836, the Slaveholder Republic’s Birthday. Historian Gerald Horne on the Texas Revolution, its victors, and its victims ...