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| | History of Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The early history of Texas may be regarded as a step in the great struggle between England, France and Spain for the possession of America. |
 | | The earliest explorations were made by the Spaniards, Cabeza de Vaca, 1528-36, and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, 1540-42, but the first colony was that planted on Matagorda Bay in 1685 by the French under the Sieur de la Salle. |
 | | The peace party, led by Stephen F. Austin, was able to restrain the more warlike followers of William H. Wharton and Henry Smith (1794-1851) until 1835, when Santa Anna overthrew the federal constitution of 1824 and established a dictatorship. |
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