The Mexican government had begun preparing to…
January 1827 CE
On December 11, Lieutenant Colonel Mateo Ahumada, the military commander in Texas, had marched from San Antonio de Béxar with one hundred and ten members of the infantry and initially stopped in Austin's colony to assess the loyalty of his settlers.
On January 1, Austin announces to his colonists that "infatuated madmen at Nacogdoches have declared independence."
Much of his colony immediately volunteers to assist in quelling the rebellion.
When the Mexican army leaves for Nacogdoches on January 22, they are joined by two hundred and fifty militiamen from Austin's colony.
Impatient with the army response time, Norris leads eighty men to retake the Old Stone Fort.
Although Parmer has fewer than twenty supporters with him, his men rout Norris's force in less than ten minutes.
Bean, accompanied by seventy militiamen from Austin's colony, rides into Nacogdoches, on January 31.
By now, Parmer and Edwards have learned that the Cherokee have abandoned any intention of waging war against Mexico.
When not a single Cherokee warrior appears to reinforce the revolt, Edwards and his supporters flee.
Bean pursues them to the Sabine River, but most, including both Edwards brothers, safely cross into the United States.
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