Born in 1765 in Nuevo Santander (now the Mexican state of Tamaulipas), Martín De...

Lorenzo de Zavala was infamous to Spain, well-known as a citizen of Mexico, and...

Unlike several of the other Texas empresarios, Ben Milam did not come from a...

Moses Austin and his son, Stephen F. Austin, were the first Texas empresarios...but despite...

The new Mexican government needed men they could trust to attract, acclimate, and administrate...

Samuel May Williams did not come to Texas to become an empresario, but he became...

Between 1750 and 1830, the population of Ireland tripled. This fact alone would have...

Haden Edwards was one of the first Texas empresarios. His father was a senator who...