Texas was once bigger than it knew. 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 ...

In 1908, a group of women in the newly formed Daughters of the Republic of Texas worked to buy the structure ... On Palm Sunday 1836, Mexican troops marched a group of Texian prisoners under ...

1836. After just 18 minutes of fighting, Texas had won its freedom. Though the Republic of Texas would later join the United States in 1845, those nine years of independence left an undeniable ...

The Stone Fort chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas celebrated Texas Independence day with traditional ceremony and ringing of the bell.

On March 2, 1836, the first Texans declared independence from Mexico, and the Republic of Texas formed. Now, 189 years later, Dairy Queen is helping celebrate Texas Independence Day with a Texas ...

Texas Independence Day, celebrated annually on March 2, marks the anniversary of when Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836 ... rule and establishing the Republic of Texas.