when they finally arrive at nacogdoches, the spanish garrison there surrender. they join the filibuster. and then they begin moving to the south toward labea. by the time they arrive there in august, they will siege that position for four months before the spanish finally surrender. and then they will move to the north and west against san antonio, even capturing san antonio. now, here is when the gutierrez/ de lara/magee expedition runs awry. there are ethnic divisions within these ranks. and once they capture san antonio, the tejanos decide they're going to execute the spanish governor, manuel salcido. he will be executed, and many americans will say we didn't get involved in this to settle old scores. we got involved in this to bring texas into the union. well, americans began leaving the rebellion. and within a few weeks, a mexican force coming from the south will defeat the revolutionaries at the battle of medina just outside of san antonio. a young lieutenant that was on that expedition from mexico is antonio lopez de santana. it's his first taste of texas

of 1812, when they finally arrive at nacogdoches, the spanish garrison there surrender. they join the

the north fork led to nacogdoches and safety, the second toward harrisburg and confrontation. tensions ran high as the army approached the spot that they would recall as the forks of the road, the forks of the road. riding toward the rear of the column, houston remained silent, cheering the army took the south fork. since that day, controversy has surrounded the incident. did houston intend to turn south at the forks of the road? after the fact, he swore that he did. but witnesses on the ground had different recollections. robert coleman, a houston aide-de-camp quoted the houston saying while they were across from grossis plantation, as soon as it is ascertained in camp that the enemy is at san felipe, half the army will be teasing me to fight. i am, however, commander in chief. i will retreat to the redlands. i will immediately issue marching orders and the retreat shall be commenced as soon as possible. now, that's what coleman said. and this is corroborated in large part by something that anson jones, last president of the texas republic, also said. and this is a long quote

of 1999, it was brought to our attention at a new site the park service, cane river location, n nacogdoches, louisiana, before the civil war, had upon the retreat of nathaniel bank's army of the red river campaign in 1864, the spring of 1864, the united states army left a large amount of baggage and equipage, and the family went out and recovered this. amongst it were two -- two -- civil war tents. one of those tents was a sibley tent. designed by henry hopkins sibley, based on a plain indian teepee pattern. his family had had these tents in their possession since recovering at that point in time. one of them's an oil tent, and then this is the sibley tent. remarkably it's now known there are only sibley tents in the american civil war in existence in the world. one in each hemisphere of mother earth. this is in our hemisphere and in the possession of the american people now. this tent in recent negotiations with the smithsonian institute will be traveling to washington for potential display at the national african-american museum in a civil war exhibit about the african-american experience

they had also been partners with robert triplett in a land deal in nacogdoches in late 1835, but triplett had bowed out of the deal and decided not to invest the funds because he didn't feel like he could clear title. so the allen brothers went down to galveston where they were planning to put their city and they looked at the tract of land and they looked at the title and they said, you know, you've got title to this and menard's got title to this and i don't think y'all are going to work it out. so they had to pass on putting their city there because of the problems associated with that loan. so then they go up to harrisburg. well, harrisburg was at a navigabna navigable bend in the bayou where the turn in the ship channel is now. all the land was still there. and they wanted to buy that land from jane harris but they couldn't buy the land from jane harris because honest bob and william peter had still had a lawsuit against the estate and she didn't have clear title. so they went even further to the intersection of buffalo bayou and white oak bayou, bought two sections of land from the

but they needed to raise real money so they had agents fan across text from san augustin to nacogdoches to nagorda. this is a receipt for cannonballs. 46 six-pound cannonballs. it was signed at quintana january 24th, 1836 by james w. fannon jr., agent for the provisional government. james fannon signed this in his capacity as an agent for the provisional government the very day that he sailed from velasco down to copano bay and began the march to golead in which he would be dead two months later. it was his signature as an agent of the provisional government that bound the government to pay this receipt. mckinney and williams would have turned this in after the war for whatever those 46 six-pound cannonballs were worth. fannon is often remembered as a martyr of the texas revolution. but he was an outstanding organizer. he was an outstanding agent who did a lot for texas in the short period of time that he was here. so now the government has moved from san felipe de austin to washington on the brazos. washington on the brazos was a little town outside of navasota. it's still a little tow