FIRST -- Anglo-American Rebellion in East Texas, San Augustine TX
N 31° 31.606 W 094° 04.704
15R E 397616 N 3488486
The state historical marker at the site of the Battle of Fredonia, the first Anglo-American revolt in Texas, along the SH 21/El Camino Real
Waymark Code: WMXGDT
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/09/2018
Views: 3
This replacement marker is located in a highway pullout east of San Augustine on the SH 21, which follows the route of El Camino Real.
The text of the marker reads as follows:
"SITE OF THE BATTLE OF FREDONIA
Climax of first Anglo-American rebellion in East Texas. In 1826 colonizer Hayden Edwards defied expulsion orders of Mexico and founded Republic of Fredonia - raising flag of "Independence, Liberty and Justice." When Ayish Bayou settlers refused to join, he ordered their banishment. Fredonians, from log fort at this site, were ordered to take Ayish Bayou on Jan. 21, 1827. That day, however, without a shot, Stephen Prather's nine Anglos and sixty native Americans took the fort and 200 soldiers. At news of this, Edwards fled to the U.S., ending the Fredonia Rebellion. (1966)
Marker is property of the state of Texas"
The El Camino Real de los Tejas has been designated a National Historic Trail through the states of Texas and New Mexico. (
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"From the Rio Grande to the Red River Valley
Come on a journey that will carry you through 300 years of Louisiana and Texas frontier settlement and development on a Spanish colonial "royal road" that originally extended to Mexico City, Mexico.
You are about to travel 2,500 miles, from Mission San Juan Bautista Guerrero, Mexico to Fort St. Jean Baptiste Nachitoches Parish, Louisiana."
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