The Republic of the Rio Grande Explained for Non-Texans. Posted: June 18, 2025 | Last updated: June 18, 2025. In the early days after the Mexican revolution, something uniquely Texan happened in ...

Canales was also captured and the Republic of the Rio Grande faded into history. At the end, the Federalist army retreated as far north as San Antonio and Victoria, ending the rebellion.

In December 1836 the Texas Congress, heady from victory against Mexico, claimed the republic’s boundaries included “the mouth of the Rio Grande, thence up the principal stream of said river to ...

In autumn 1835, simmering political tensions in Texas came to a boil. A series of bloody skirmishes over a short span of months would decide the region's future.

Everything that is the center of the Rio Grande and north, of course, the state of Texas and the United States territory. The land just hadn't been accurately declared as it was forming in the river.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Texas for placing the buoys in the Rio Grande. It's part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's effort to keep migrants from crossing the boarder.

AUSTIN — Texas will disregard the federal government’s demand to give Border Patrol agents access to the Rio Grande through a state-controlled park in Eagle Pass, Attorney General Ken Paxton ...

Fears of an “invasion” don’t justify Texas’s usurpation of federal authority on border enforcement, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Judge David Ezra of the Western District of Texas conc… ...

The Justice Department is seeking a preliminary injunction in its case against Texas over its use of floating barriers in the Rio Grande, according to a Wednesday court filing, in an attempt to ...

In “Habsburgs on the Rio Grande,” Raymond Jonas’s story of French-backed nation building in Mexico foreshadows the proxy battles of the Cold War.

A U.S. appeals court issued an order on Thursday temporarily ensuring that a barrier of floating buoys in the Rio Grande that was placed by Texas to discourage illegal crossings could stay in ...