![]() Austin was determined to stay in control of the power they’d been given. This denial of archives in 1842 became known as the Archive War, because Houston sent an armed force to Austin to get the archives, which was repulsed by the people. The president demanded that the archives placed in the capital be moved to Houston as well, but the Austin populace blatantly refused their president’s order. When Houston became president, he moved the capital to the more secure settlement of Houston. Sam Houston and several other Texans opposed the vulnerable placement of the Austin settlement. Austin was a hero to most Texans, so when the capital site was found, the 7,735 acres, including the hamlet of Waterloo, were christened after Austin. ![]() As the main instigator for Anglo-American settlement in Texas, Stephen F. The Republic of Texas was three years old in 1839, and she needed a capital.
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