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	080929	Mt Bonnell TimeLine	LU: 081019-1415	Steven L Bonnell  slbnl@kbsb.com	www.kbsb.com/reward/
	DATE	George W Bonnell	Joseph Bonnell	Other	Notes
					If a {L###} used, identifies the Line Number in "Joseph Bonnell A Texas hero ignored by history” by Seldon B. Graham, Jr. February 9, 2006
	??	from: Onondaga Co, NY
	04 Aug 1802		Born: Philadelphia, PA
	1824			Lieutenant Joseph Cadle graduates West Point
	1825		Joseph Bonnell graduates West Point, 2nd Lieutenant,  assigned to 3rd Infantry Regiment, US Army
	1826			Albert Sidney Johnston graduates West Point
	1827			Lieutenant William S. Stilwell graduates West Point
	23 April, 1831		Joseph marries Anna Elizabeth Noble Adams Co, Mississippi
	(July) 1831		Joseph promoted to 1st Lieutenant, US Army
	1835			Hugh McLeod graduates West Point	www.tshaonline.org
	1835
	July, 1835		Joseph Bonnell is official witness to the US - Caddo Indian Treaty; earns the Trust of Caddo Indians		{L045}  Lt Bonnell asked to read the treaty before the signing, and the U.S. Agent, Jehiel Brooks, refused to allow Bonnell to read the treaty.  This raised the suspicions of both Bonnell and the Indian chiefs. A hidden provision inserted by Brooks improperly and unjustly led to the enrichment of Brooks.
	October 2, 1835			Texas War of Independence  begins  Battle of Gonzales
	October 11, 1835			Stephen F. Austin is elected commander Texian Volunteers
	November, 1835			Consultation appoints Sam Houston Commander-in-Chief of a regular Texas Army
				Consultation also appoints Houston to Select Committee on Indian Affairs	Houston was also appointed to the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, as he had spent much of his career dealing with Indian nations. The Texians needed the support of the Indians (or at least their neutrality) to win their fight against Mexico.
	November 22, 1835		Joseph Bonnell becomes General Sam Houston's Aide-de-Camp: First Aide-de-Camp of the Texan Army
	December 30, 1835		Joseph Bonnell sends a private letter to Sam Houston. This letter was a blueprint for building the Texas Army. He signed this letter, “Your sincere friend, J. Bonnell.”		{L069} Joseph Bonnell was so valuable an officer that his U.S. Army colonel refused to grant him a leave of absence to join the Texas Army. .. This private letter was no ordinary letter, however. It was a “How-to-start-an-army” letter. It contained detailed explanations and enclosed example documents pertaining to uniforms, military administration, logistical supply, pay, promotions, ordnance, ammunition and rations.
	1836			Edmund P. Gaines posts U.S. Sixth Infantry at Fort Jesup, Louisiana, to prevent armed volunteers from the United States from entering Texas as volunteers for Sam Houston's army	Gaines's sympathies were with Texas, although he was prevented by his position from helping with the Texas Revolution. His instructions forbade him to cross into Texas unless armed belligerents should threaten to violate United States territorial sovereignty. He was given discretion, however, to cross the Sabine River if Indian depredations should disturb the tranquility of the border.
	January 11, 1836			General Houston wrote Governor Robinson to urge the appointment of Joseph Bonnell to the rank of Captain in the Regular Army of Texas
	February 23, 1836			The Alamo comes under artillery fire  from Mexican troops.
	March, 1836			Hugh McLeod takes leave of absence as US Army Lt. in  3rd Infantry Regiment at Fort Jesup, Louisiana to defend Nacogdoches	Nacogdoches, Texas
	March 2, 1836			Texas Declaration of Independence	Timeline of the Republic of Texas
	March 4, 1836			Sam Houston is appointed commander  of Texas Forces
	March 6, 1836			Final - Battle of the Alamo	~ 1,200 Mexicans in assult -vs- 180-250 Texans, ALL Texas soldiers killed
	March 10, 1836		Joseph Bonnell officially Captain in  Regular Army of Texas		List of Officers of the  Regular Army of Texas
	March 11, 1836			Houston begins his retreat from Gonzales precipitating the Runaway Scrape
	March 12-15, 1836			Battle of Refugio	~ 1,500 Mexicans -vs- 148 Texans; about 70 Texans killed
	March 27, 1836			Goliad Massacre: James Fannin and nearly 400 Texans are executed by order of Santa Anna	~ 700 Mexicans -vs- ~400 Texans, ALL but 28 Texans killed
	March 28, 1836			Houston orders Wiley Martin and Mosley Baker to guard his retreat thus delaying Santa Anna's crossing the  Brazos River
	April 4, 1836			US Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines arrives at Fort Jessup, Lousiana, to take command of the international border situation	{L163} The United States, because of diplomatic relations with Mexico, had to remain strictly neutral. General Gaines could not take any action in support of the Texas Revolution.
	April 7, 1836		Joseph Bonnell  sent alone into Texas from Fort Jessup, LA to quell an uprising of 1700 hostile Indians	Edmund P. Gaines dispatches U.S. Lt. Joseph Bonnell	Edmund P. Gaines dispatched U.S. Lt. Joseph Bonnell to the Caddo villages of east Texas to persuade them to remain at peace. It was Bonnell who discovered the plot of Manuel Flores to incite the tribes to war against Texas. Gaines further strengthened the frontier by ordering the Sixth United States Infantry to Fort Jesup from Jefferson Barracks. He was absolutely forbidden to join cause directly with the Texas revolutionaries.
	April 12, 1836			Santa Anna crosses Fort Bend on Brazos River
				Houston uses the boat Yellow Stone to cross the Brazos River
	April 14, 1836		Joseph Bonnell reaches 1st Caddo village but finds it deserted except for a few children and squaws.		... all the warriors (~1,700) had gone to the prairies in consequence of what Manuel Flores had told them
			Joseph proceedes to 2nd Caddo village about 12 miles away and  finds Chief Cortes	Chief Cortes was glad that Joseph Bonnell had come, for now the Caddos had learned the truth after Manuel Flores had been telling them lies.	{L301} “Tell General Gaines, the great chief, that even should the Caddoes see the Americans and  paniards fighting, they would only look on, but not take a part on either side; tell him that I will send and let our chiefs and warriors know what you have said through him.”
			Joseph told Chief Cortes that he came as a friend, that Americans were their friends, and that he wanted the warriors to return to their villages and live in peace and hunt on their usual grounds.	Chief Cortes told Lieutenant Bonnell that he would send to the prairies and inform the chiefs and all the warriors of what Bonnell had said.	Joseph Bonnell’s reputation of honesty with the Caddos, which he had earned the year before, paid great dividends for the cause of the Texas Revolution.
	April 18, 1836			Houston and his army arrive outside of Harrisburg (within Houston, TX)
	April 20, 1836			Houston moves his army to Buffalo Bayou
			Joseph Bonnell returns to Ft. Jessup - reports that the Indians will not make war against the Texans		An estimated 1,700 Indians are now  no longer a threat to the Texans
	April 21, 1836			Battle of San Jacinto Texas Revolution ends	Texan Army (~800) under Sam Houston defeats Mexican force (~1,400) under Santa Anna, ( 0 Indians), securing Texas Independence; Santa Anna captured the next morning
			Joseph Bonnell had sent a 'scimitar' with a 'plated scabbard'  to Sam Houston		The_Life_of_Sam_Houston_p153 "... a scimitar of tried metal, with a plated scabbard - a gift from his friend Captain Joseph Bonnell, of Fort Jessup. ..."
	May 2, 1836			US General Gaines sends Lieutenant Joseph Bonnell’s report to the U.S Secretary of War for the information of the President of the United States	{L328} after General Gaines learned of the Texas victory at the Battle of San Jacinto, he sent Lieutenant Joseph Bonnell’s report to the U.S Secretary of War for the information of the President of the United States
	May 14, 1836			Treaties of Velasco
	June 15, 1836			Filiosa, leading the defeated and demoralized Mexican army, crosses the Rio Grande River back into Mexico and arrives at Matamoros, Tamaulipas
	June 30, 1836			US Army 2nd Lt. Hugh McLeod resigns his US Army commission, effective June 30, 1836
	July 15, 1836			Albert Sidney Johnston arrives in Nacogdoches
	August 1, 1836			Sam Houston arrives in Nacogdoches	Houston had returned home to Nacogdoches after convalescing in New Orleans, then later in San Augustine, from his wound at San Jacinto
	August 5, 1836			Albert Sidney Johnston named Adjutant General as a Colonel in the Republic of Texas Army
	Mid-August, 1836	George W Bonnell arrives in Texas
	September 5, 1836			Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas
	October 22, 1836			Sam Houston becomes President of the Republic
	November 15, 1836	George W. Bonnell  letter to Dr. Robert A. Irion concerning 'navigation of the Colorado'			George W. Bonnell to Dr. Robert A. Irion, concerning a petition to Col. Horton asking for the privilege of exclusive navigation of the Colorado to Bonnell and Col. Charles F. Le Barron "on the condition that we remove the raft."
	December 27, 1836			Stephan F. Austin died
	1837
	December 5, 1837	George Bonnell was one of the 26 who met in the capitol of the Republic of Texas at Houston, the founders of The Philosophical Society of Texas			http://library.uta.edu/findingAids/GA1.jsp
	1838
	July, 1838			The U.S. Eighth Regiment of Infantry was organized under the immediate supervision of its colonel- William J. Worth -who established the first regimental headquarters at West Troy, N. Y., in July, 1838.	The Eighth Regiment of Infantry was organized under the immediate supervision of its colonel-William J. Worth-who established the first regimental headquarters at West Troy, N. Y., in July, 1838. On the 31st they were removed to Madison Barracks, N. Y., at which place all the companies of the regiment were concentrated by the 31st of October.
	September 1, 1838		Joseph transferred by US Army (on or about): West Troy, NY and/or Madison Barracks, N. Y	The regiment was raised under Act of July 5, 1838, and the U. S. Army Register of date September 1, 1838, gives its commissioned roster including: Captain ...  Joseph Bonnell	THE EIGHTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY By LIEUTENANT RICHARD H. WILSON, ADJUTANT 8TH U. S. INFANTRY
	November 3, 1838	George Bonnell, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the Republic of Texas, made a lengthy report			The Southwestern Historical Quarterly,  VOL. XXVI JULY, 1922 No. 1, The Indian Policy of the Republic of Texas,  Anna Muckleroy - Ref #84 Senate Reports, 30 Congress, 1 Session, 512, Document 171
	December 10, 1838			Mirabeau B. Lamar becomes President of the Republic.
	December 22, 1838			Albert Sidney Johnston appointed Secretary of War
	1839
	January 14, 1839			Started moving the capital from Houston to Austin
	October 17, 1839			Secretary of War Albert Sidney Johnston  led the parade which met  President Lamar in Austin	bronze plaque on the Paramount Theater in downtown Austin marks the location of Johnston’s log cabin
	December 6, 1939	the firm of Cruger & Bonnell at Austin is elected public printer			In the fall of 1839 Cruger formed the firm of Cruger & Bonnell at Austin and on December 6 that firm was elected public printer by the Fourth Congress... There is no record of printing by the new firm of Cruger & Bonnell until January, 1840.
	December 12, 1839			Secretary of War Johnston sends a report to President Lamar	{L437}  Secretary of War Johnston sent a report to President Lamar outlining the defense of the new capital (Austin) of the Republic. His report stated that, at this time, there are four companies on the Colorado above this city
	1840
	January 15, 1840	George Bonnell started publication of the first Austin Texas Sentinel Newspaper
	March 19, 1840			Council House Fight
	April, 1840	First known printed use of Mount Bonnell name - No incedent after this date can be a reason for the name's use.
		George Bonnell publishes the book " A Topographical Description of Texas …"			George's book is the first known (so far) printed document using the name 'Mount Bonnell', but he did not identify the source of the name. See some of the book's pages at the referenced website link
	May-June, 1840	George W. Bonnell, in Command of  the Travis Guards and Rifles, when he led raids against the Comanches			Camp Cazneau - Located adjacent to Kenney's Fort, east of present-day Round Rock, Camp Cazneau was on Brushy Creek at the Double File Trail Crossing created by Indians passing through the area.
	July 28, 1840	Bonnell & Cruger terminate their partnership in Austin			The laws of the Fourth Congress were printed by Cruger on the Telegraph press at Houston, after the termination on July 28, 1840, of his partnership with Bonnell.
	September 27, 1840		Joseph Bonnell dies in Philadelphia, PA
	December 26, 1840	George Bonnell sold the Texas Sentinel
	1841
	February 4, 1841	George Bonnell became a charter member of the Austin Lyceum
	June, 1841			321 men under Hugh McLeod and George Thomas Howard  began an invasion of Santa Fe.
	December 13, 1841			Sam Houston becomes President of the Republic - again
	1842
	November 9, 1842	George Bonnell as a Private in Capt. Fisher's Company, 2nd Regiment South Western Army			Muster Roll: Somervell Expedition, Capt. William S. Fisher's Company, 2nd Regiment South Western Army, Col. James R. Cook Commanding
	December 26, 1842	George Bonnell  captured by Mexicans and eventually killed		Texans are taken prisoner in the failed  Mier Expedition	George Bonnell was left with a camp guard on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. When the guard was ordered to retreat, he and a companion returned to the camp for horses, and Bonnell was captured
	December 29, 1842			Agents for Sam Houston attempt to steal government records in Austin and move them to Houston in the Texas Archive War
	1843
	March 25, 1843			17 Texans from the Mier Expedition are executed by firing squad for attempting escape
	1844
	1845
	December 29, 1845			Annexation of the  Republic of Texas  by the United States of America
	??			Seldon Graham's Research into Joseph Bonnell's history
	August, 2002			Steven L Bonnell's first visit to Austin, TX and Mount Bonnell
	Memorial Day May 30, 2005		Texas Grave Marker  Laurel Hill Cemetery Philadelphia, PA		House of Representatives  79th Texas Legislature
	February 6, 2006			Seldon B. Graham, Jr. finalizes his document Joseph Bonnell: A Texas hero ignored by history
	April 14, 2006			Steven L Bonnell contacted concerning Lydia Bonnell's Prayer Book, the sister of Joseph Bonnell
				Steve receives first Joseph Bonnell document  (Hero of the Texas Revolution, 11 pages) from Laurel Hill Cemetery (date & author not defined)
	August 3, 2008			Steve Bonnell visits Austin, TX and Austin Historical Society where he identifies the document's Author!
	August,4, 2008			Sel Graham & Steve Bonnell meet in Austin & discuss Mount Bonnell
	September 5, 2008			REWARD for Documented Proof published in Bunnell / Bonnell Newsletter	REWARD Web Page http://www.kbsb.com/reward/
		Other References:
	JB	REWARD		http://www.kbsb.com/reward
		THE CADDO IN TEXAS, 1836-1845  Ch. V		http://www.edswebshop.com/history_of_the_caddo_indians_chap5_1.htm
		Forgotten Texas Hero of San Jacinto		http://www.cockle.us/usma/bonnell.htm
	GWB	Savage Frontier  V III  1840-41		http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/excerpt/press270.pdf
		THE PARENTAGE OF GEORGE WILLIAM BONNELL		http://www.kbsb.com/reward/Parentage_of_GEORGE_WILLIAM_BONNELL.pdf
		Invasion Excitement		http://www.tshaonline.org/supsites/nance/jn_382.html
		Camp Cazneau		http://www.forttours.com/pages/colemansfortleg.asp
		Journal of the Texian Expedition Against Mier		http://smu.edu/swcenter/tjgreen/tjg_028.htm