Everything about Felix Huston totally explained
Felix Huston (
1800 –
1857) was a
lawyer,
soldier, and the first commanding general of the Army of the
Republic of Texas.
Huston was born in
Kentucky. He was a
slave trader, planter and
Whig politician and attorney in
Natchez, Mississippi. Receiving news of the
Texas Revolution, he raised and equipped troops (often at his own expense) and money throughout
Mississippi and Kentucky.
He left Natchez on
May 5 1836, with approximately 500 to 700 volunteers to join the
Texian army, but arrived well after the
Battle of San Jacinto, in which
Mexican President,
General Santa Anna ceded defeat and in effect, granted Texas her independence.
On
December 20 1836,
Sam Houston commissioned Huston as a
brigadier general in the 2,000-man army and temporary commander-in-chief. His men referred to him as "Old Long Shanks" or "Old Leather Breeches", and Huston attracted adventurers and men of little discipline to his "Camp Independence" in
Jackson County. He feared
San Antonio couldn't be defended in the event of another Mexican invasion, and ordered the town and the nearby
Alamo burned.
However,
Juan Seguín intervened, and the town and historic mission were spared from destruction. Later in the year, Sam Houston appointed
Albert Sidney Johnston as the senior brigadier general and permanent commander of the Texan army. Huston felt slighted, and challenged Johnston to a
duel on
February 5 1837, wounding him in the right hip.
In November of
1839, Huston was elected as
major general of the
militia, defeating
James C. Neill and other candidates. He developed an aggressive scheme to capture
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in
1840, believing that Texas should expand its borders southward beyond the
Rio Grande River. However, his desires were thwarted by moderates.
In August, warchief Little Buffalo Hump and 500
Comanche Indians attacked
Victoria, Texas and other nearby towns, stealing horses and livestock and murdering dozens of white settlers. Huston led 200 Texans and
Tonkawa Indians against the raiders at Plum Creek near
Gonzales on the evening of
August 11, killing 80 Comanches while only losing 1 man.
In May
1837, President Sam Houston
furloughed much of the Texas army, leaving Huston a general without troops to command. Shortly thereafter, Huston left Texas and co-founded a law firm in
New Orleans.
In
1844, he supported a movement to annex the republic to the
United States. However, by the late
1850s Huston had become an ardent
secessionist. In
1851, he spoke at a rally in New Orleans supporting
Cuban
independence from
Spain.
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