The schooner Mary Jane sets sail for…

The schooner Mary Jane sets sail for Tampico, Tamaulipas in the Tampico Expedition, intending to capture the town from the Centralists, on November 6, 1835.

José Antonio Mexía, a great supporter of federalism and of decentralizing the Mexican state, had, as a senator for the state of México, participated in an 1834 uprising against President Antonio López de Santa Anna; two months later, he had been captured by centralist forces in Jalisco and sent into exile.

He had traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he had encouraged filibusters from the United States to invade Mexico, recruiting Anglo settlers under the guise of brokering land for them.

The Americans, realizing they have been tricked, do not support Mexía's plan of stirring another uprising against Santa Anna.

Thirty-one men are taken prisoner but Mexía manages to escape to Texas.

Santa Anna orders the execution of the prisoners.

Three die from illness.

These independent missions drain the Texan movement of supplies and men, bringing only disaster for months to come.