EP. 71: The First Declaration of Independence
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When Texans talk about the Declaration of Independence, they usually mean the one signed at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836. Occasionally, we refer to the Goliad declaration of 1835. But there was one before all of them. In 1813, Texans in San Antonio de Bexar declared the province of Texas to be independent. The wording sounds familiar in places but the principals are timeless, and very familiar to Texans and Americans. Learn more about what motivated the Texans of 1813 to declare independence, which ultimately led to the Battle of Medina a few months later. (PHOTO BY BOB OWEN/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS/ZUMA PRESS)
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise Abouty and welcome to Wise About Texas, the award winning Texas |
| 0:12.2 | History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wise. Thanks for Texas Summer is going well. It is of course Texas so it is hot. Every summer I vow not to complain about it and it doesn't work. |
| 0:28.0 | So I hope that you're doing your best to try and stay cool. We're actually right in the middle of the summer. |
| 0:34.4 | This episode is being recorded and released on July 4th, 2019. So happy Independence Day. |
| 0:41.4 | I mentioned that because today we are going to talk about the |
| 0:45.4 | Declaration of Independence. I'm not talking about the U.S. Declaration of Independence. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm talking about the Texas Declaration of Independence, but I'm not even talking about the Texas Declaration of Independence from March 2, 1836. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm talking about the first Declaration of Independence from the Mexican Revolution. Thanks to Brandon |
| 1:06.2 | Seal, a podcaster, historian, businessman from San Antonio, Texas, we now know what |
| 1:11.5 | it said and I'm going to talk more about Mr. |
| 1:14.2 | Seal at the end of this episode. He's got a terrific podcast I want you to check out. |
| 1:18.4 | But first, we're going to go back to 1813 and get wise about Texas. |
| 1:31.0 | Before we get to 1813, let me say something about 1810 that's when Father Hidalgo and his famous |
| 1:36.7 | grito began the Mexican Revolution. Well one of the hotbeds for the revolutionary activity during this time was San Antonio de Behar. |
| 1:46.4 | San Antonio de Behar was a far-flung city from the capital of Mexico, which of course was being ruled by Spain. |
| 1:54.0 | As such, it didn't get a lot of attention from the government, |
| 1:57.5 | and the attention it did get was often unwelcome. |
| 2:00.0 | They were an independent lot that lived on that frontier as you might imagine and they needed and were in favor of local control of their affairs. |
| 2:11.0 | Does any of that sound familiar going back to 1776? It should. It's the |
| 2:17.4 | same situation. There was a gentleman named Gutierrez de laure who led what was called the Republican Army of the North. |
| 2:26.1 | Now I just say it in that one sentence because we're going to do another episode on |
| 2:30.4 | the Gutierrez McGee expedition and the Battle of Medina. |
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