Texas - The Capital of Texas

James long was a surgeon who'd served in the battle of new Orleans and was pretty well known by the excitable and heavily armed men of Louisiana. In 1819 he began making plans to invade texas now then as in today texas was a violent and lawless wasteland mexico was ostensibly in charge but they weren't great at being in charge. The united states had only recently yielded her claim over texas in the adam's onus treaty, which is part of what makes texas such a bad place to be.