biography
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| (1802–39)
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| biography:
| Texas Revolution leader, born in Albemarle Co, Virginia, USA. Marrying into the wealthy Groce family of Texas, he and his wife turned their plantation on ‘Eagle Island’ into a meeting ground for those who moulded the future state. Pushed out by Stephen Austin for leadership of the colonization forces (1832), he was president of the convention (1833) that wrote a preliminary Texas constitution. He was named judge-advocate of the separatist army (1835), but resigned and went E to promote Texas's revolution (1835–6). Santa Anna was captured in his absence and with the revolution nearly complete, but he tried to negotiate Texas's inclusion into the USA (1836–7); he did not live to see annexation completed. |
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