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occupied for Mexico by Don Jose Manuel Herrera, minister of the Mexican patriots to the United States; a government is organized and Don Luis Aury chosen governor of Texas and Galveston Island......Sept. 12, 1816 Jean Lafitte with a band of buccaneers occupies Galveston Island during Aury's absence and calls his settlement Campeachy......April, 1817 Sabine River agreed upon as boundary between United States and Spanish possessions......Feb. 22, 1819 A company of volunteers under Dr. James Long, raised at Natchez to invade Texas, occupy Nacogdoches, establish a provisional government, and issue a declaration proclaiming Texas to be a free and independent republic......June, 1819 First printing-office in Texas established at Nacogdoches by Mr. Bigelow......1819 Lafitte is taken into the service of the Republican party of Mexico and appointed governor of Galveston......1819 Lafitte is compelled to evacuate Galveston Island by Lieutenant Kearney of the United States brig