TEXAS FILIBUSTERS CHAPTER 8.1

A FILIBUSTER IS AN ADVENTURER WHO ENGAGES IN A PRIVATE REBELLIOUS ACTIVITY IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. A FILIBUSTER IS IN SEARCH OF PERSONAL GAIN WHO HAD SOME SILENT SUPPORT FROM THE GOVERNMENT IN WHICH BENEFITED THEIR ACTIONS.

OTHER NAMES FOR FILIBUSTERS: IN OTHER COUNTRIES, FILIBUSTERS ARE KNOWN BY OTHER NAMES: BUCCANEER-----FRENCH PIRATES SPANISH FREE-BOOTERS--BRITISH

FILIBUSTERS WERE SETTLERS WHO DID NOT AGREE TO THE CONDITIONS OF THE SPANISH FILIBUSTERS THREATENED SPANISH RULE. SPANISH GOVERNMENT CONSIDERED FILIBUSTERS CRIMINALS.

TEXAS FILIBUSTERS: 1 ST TEXAS FILIBUSTER------LATE 1700’S------PHILIP NOLAN AND PETER ELLIS BEAN P. 169

THE LONG EXPEDITION THE LONG EXPEDITION WAS THE LAST MAJOR FILIBUSTER IN TEXAS. P. 172

REVOLUTIONARIES AND PIRATES FRANCISCO XAVIER MINA AND HENRY PERRY LOUIS MICHEL AURY JEAN LAFITTE P. 171

NEUTRAL GROUND AGREEMENT US GENERAL WILKENSON AND SPANISH GEN. HERRERA REACHED A COMPROMISE BETWEEN LOUISIANA AND SPANISH TEXAS. A NEUTRAL ZONE BETWEEN THE ARROYO HONDO AND THE SABINE RIVER. P. 170

GUTIERREZ-MAGEE EXPEDITION GUTIERREZ-MAGEE WERE BOTH FILIBUSTERS. THEY ORGANIZED THE REPUBLIC OF THE NORTH. VISIONS OF A FREE TEXAS DID NOT COME TO BE A REALITY. HOWEVER, THE EXPEDITION WAS NOT A COMPLETE FAILURE IT DID ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO TRY TO FREE TEXAS AND MEXICO FROM SPANISH RULE. P.170

ADAMS—ONIS TREATY SIGNED BETWEEN THE US AND SPAIN IN SET THE EASTERN BORDER AT THE SABINE AND THE NORTHERN BORDER ALONG THE RED RIVER. SPAIN CEDED (SURRENDERED BY TREATY OR AGREEMENT) FLORIDA TO THE US. THIS WAS CALLED THE ADAMS—ONIS TREATY. P. 171