Show texas originally tejas under six nations flags what the world now klutts as texas was originally san francisco de lot log tejas tejas being the name of 0 a trible of 0 indians the spanish pronunciation was warrant for changing tejas to texas the change being attributed to capt alonzo de leou leon the word itself means friends says the houston rest post the battle ot of san jacinto Jacl nto ought fought on april 21 1830 1836 transferred texas from mexico to right there the historian if not very careful Is 18 liable to stumble texas was not cot transferred to another sovereignty but assumed the tb role of a nation on her own account it was a transfer from autocracy to democracy for mexico at that time was under a dictatorship of an offensive tort sort the texas republic sent ambassadors to foreign courts and in all ways comported itself as berit befitted ted a responsible sovereignty by derree decree the people ot of texas took membership in the Amerl american caa union and today has two senators and twenty one representatives representative in the congress at washington dating from the arrival of IA salle in february 1685 texas has paid allegiance to the flags 0 of f six nations the lilies of france flying over la salles tort fort at mats gorda were replaced by the banier of castile and aragon then cane came medicos cos independence of spain and this was followed by the independence pen dence of texas in 1854 texas voluntarily joined the american union in 1861 texas seceded from the union and attached itself to the southern confederacy and when the latter failed in 1865 resumed its place in the american union |