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ar ⋅ chive [ahr-kahyv] noun, verb, -chived, -chiv ⋅ ing. Sam Houston order a captain and colonel to remove archives from the General Land Office on Dec. 29 th, They had 3 wagons and 20 soldiers. Mrs. Angelina Eberly was the first to spot the late night marauders. She fired a 6 lb. cannon ball in their direction. archives, a place where public records or other historical documents are kept. k
War ₁ [wawr] noun, verb, warred, war ⋅ ring, adjective The cannon awakened reinforcements. Captain Chandler and Colonel Smith loaded up and went on their way. Austinites followed men to what is now known as Round Rock. There was a stand off, eight shots were fired, no one was hurt. Austinites retrieved archives and brought them back to Austin. a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations:
Tex ⋅ as [tek-suhs] –noun The Archives War kept the Archives in Austin, thus making it harder for Sam Houston to move the capitol to Houston. After the “war” Texans were upset with Houston, accusing him of having ulterior motives to his “state of emergency” orders. Houston tried to explain it away, but the archives war stained his name. an awesome state, in which even a presidential order is answered by cannon fire.
Aus ⋅ tin [aw-stuhn] -noun Austin was chosen as capital of Texas in Congress voted Austin as the official capital in years later Texans voted again, with Waco and Houston in the running. Austin garnered over 60, 000 votes keeping it the capital of Texas once and for all. a city in and the rightful capital of Texas, in the central part, on the Colorado River.
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