6/22/1824: Austin Colony settlers clash with Karankawas
On this day in 1824, the battle of Jones Creek was fought between colonists of the lower Brazos River and Karankawa Indians.
After several Indian raids in which some immigrants were killed, Stephen F. Austin commissioned Randal Jones and a company of twenty-three other settlers to retaliate. According to Jones, the problem began at a store belonging to James (Brit) Bailey, when braves demanded to purchase ammunition. Fighting broke out, and the Indians fled to their encampment with Jones and the settlers in pursuit. The next morning the settlers attacked thirty Indians camped on the bank of what later became Jones Creek in southern Brazoria County. Both sides had many casualties; the settlers returned home, and the Indians retreated across the San Bernard River but continued to trouble the settlers. The creek has since then borne Jones's name.
6/22/1832: Mexican general investigates Texans' restiveness
On this day in 1832, Mexican general Jos? Antonio Mex?a sailed from Tampico with 300 troops to suppress an apparent rebellion.
The first of the Anahuac Disturbances, a rebellious incident, had brought suspicion on the Anglo colonists. Mex?a anchored at Matamoros on June 26 and proceeded to Texas with Stephen F. Austin. At the mouth of the Brazos, now with 400 troops, he found the Texans eager to interpret their recent actions as an assertion of federalism, as opposed to centralism, rather than as a rebellion against Mexican rule. Mex?a was well received at Brazoria and learned from the citizens the reasons for the Anahuac Disturbances and the battle of Velasco. The colonists' Turtle Bayou Resolutions reassured him that they were loyal supporters of the Federalist party, and he returned to Tampico on July 28.
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