Well no... I meant 1843 but I was wrong : )
Well, your punishment is a “Today in Texas history” lesson!
http://www.tshaonline.org/day-by-day/30637
Oct 22, 1836
On this day in 1836, the ad interim Texas government ended when Sam Houston was inaugurated as President of the Republic of Texas. The Convention of 1836 had declared independence and framed a Texas Constitution, but the advance of the Mexican army made immediate ratification and establishment of constitutional government impossible.
More specifically, the last act of the Convention before it disbanded to flee the advancing Mexican Army had been the selection of an ad interim government on March 16. (The Alamo had fallen on March 6th). This temporary government, without any legislative or judicial departments, fled with the people in the Runaway Scrape, and was located successively at Washington-on-theBrazos, Harrisburg, Galveston Island, Velasco, and Columbia. Santa Anna was defeated on April 21, 1936 at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Thank you for the Tennessee folks who helped us free ourselves from tyranny. :-)