Posted on 12/29/2013 4:45:50 AM PST by Master Zinja
On this date in 1845, the Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States and becomes the 28th state in the Union, the only independent country which became a state in the United States. Today we raise the Texas flag as well as the 28-star flag.
American Flag Daily Ping for Dec 29.
What about the short-lived Republic of Louisiana?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Louisiana
When Texas and other red states break away, the U.S. will be lucky to have 27 states remaining.
The North never recognized it as an independent republic. Post-war, the North treated the Southern states as having never left for purposes of denying right to secede but inconsistently punished in Reconstruction by denying the states rights that their Northern counterparts enjoyed.
Vermont, California, Texas, and Hawai'i were all independent nations - Vermont and California, briefly, Texas, for seven years, and Hawai'i, for an extended period of time.
If the 'north' never recognized the Republic of Texas, how do we address the fact that on March 3, 1837, US President Andrew Jackson appointed Alcée La Branche American chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas, thus officially recognizing Texas as an independent republic?
The California Republic, also called the Bear Flag Republic, was a government proclaimed by settlers on June 14, 1846, in Sonoma in the then-Mexican province of California. Declared during the Mexican–American War, the republic lasted a mere 26 days.
Historically this is what happened:
Beginning in the 1820s, trappers and settlers from the U.S. and Canada began to arrive in Northern California, harbingers of the great changes that would later sweep the Mexican territory. These new arrivals used the Siskiyou Trail, California Trail, Oregon Trail and Old Spanish Trail to cross the rugged mountains and harsh deserts surrounding California. In this period, Imperial Russia explored the California coast and established a trading post at Fort Ross.
In 1846 settlers rebelled against Mexican rule during the Bear Flag Revolt. Afterwards, rebels raised the Bear Flag (featuring a bear, a star, a red stripe and the words “California Republic”) at Sonoma.
“ [We] overthrow a Government which has seized upon the property of the Missions for its individual aggrandizement; which has ruined and shamefully oppressed the laboring people of California. ”
—William Ide, Declaration from the Bear Flag Revolt
The Republic’s first and only president was William B. Ide,[13] who played a pivotal role during the Bear Flag Revolt. His term lasted 22 days and concluded when California was occupied by U.S. forces during the Mexican-American War.
The California Republic was short lived. The same year marked the outbreak of the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). When Commodore John D. Sloat of the United States Navy sailed into Monterey Bay and began the military occupation of California by the United States. Northern California capitulated in less than a month to the U.S. forces. After a series of defensive battles in Southern California, including The Siege of Los Angeles, the Battle of Dominguez Rancho, the Battle of San Pasqual, the Battle of Rio San Gabriel and the Battle of La Mesa, the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed by the Californios on January 13, 1847, securing American control in California. Following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the war, the region was divided between Mexico and the U.S.; the western territory of Alta California, was to become the U.S. state of California, and Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Utah became U.S. Territories, while the lower region of California, Baja California, remained in the possession of Mexico.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California
The U.S. recognized the Republic of Texas prior to the treaty of accession. It never recognized the Republic of Louisiana. You took my comment out of context to prove a point that didn’t need to be made.
Let each keep what they’ve got within their borders. They make them in Texas so a Lone Star Republic would be a nuke power.
With only 14 states signing up for Obamacare that leaves 36 states not wanting to be beholden to Barry.
No one is making any big deal about that as a huge slap in the face to Obama's pet project.
But, that means that 2/3rds of the country has already bolted, at least as far as Barry's health insurance fiasco is concerned.
2 weeks?
My fault.
No problem. I should have defined “it” as Louisiana to make sure others understood without referring to the post I was responding to.
If texas or any other red states breaks away you can count me in for moving.
Would like to write “Gone To Texas” and nail it to my front door.
Texas was an actual nation with it’s own military forces, including a Navy, and with international relations, not just a paper technicality, or a trivia question.
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