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United States renounces claims to Texas
On this day in 1819 the Adams-Onís Treaty was signed by President John
Quincy Adams for the United States and Luís de Onís for Spain. The
treaty renounced the United States claim to Texas. It fixed the western
boundary of the Louisiana Purchase as beginning at the mouth of the
Sabine River and running along its south and west bank to the
thirty-second parallel and thence directly north to the Río Roxo, or Red
River, "then following the course of the Río Roxo westward to the degree
of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington; then, crossing
the said Red River, and running thence, by a line due north, to the
river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the
Arkansas to its source, in latitude 42 north; and thence by that
parallel of latitude to the South Sea. The whole being as laid down in
Melish's map of the United States." Spain delayed ratification of the
Adams-Onís Treaty until 1821. By that time Mexico had declared her
independence of Spain and refused to recognize the treaty boundary line.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- ADAMS-ONIS TREATY
- RED RIVER
- MELISH MAP
- BOUNDARIES
- TEXAS IN THE AGE OF MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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