Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Texas Navy: War With Mexico
Read about Santa Anna's retaliation after the siege of Bexar, and the battles on sea and on land that followed. This site's strength is its collection of primary texts from this period in Texas' history: "Broadside calling for all men to...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Texas Navy: "Friends and Citizens of Texas"
Explore the Texas Revolution through primary texts. Here you can read "Friends and Citizens of Texas," a broadside from March 2, 1836, that "called all citizens to arms and all armed vessels to the coast."
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Texas Navy: Act for Defense of the Texas Sea Coast, March 1836
Explore the Texas Revolution through primary texts. Here you can see the handwritten "Act for Defense of the Texas Sea Coast," written in 1836.