glossary of terms and places bexar the name used by hispanics for the city of san antonio camisa spanish for shirt coahuila y tejas literally coahuila and texas , the northernmost state within mexico that included texas jacal a room-like enclosure made from logs placed vertically within the ground la bahia the mission at goliad manga de clavo santa annas villa at veracruz monclova the capital of the mexican state of coahuila y texas mujer spanish word for woman old three hundred a group of colonists from the united states that were led by stephen austin to texas beginning in 1822 rio bravo the mexican designation for the rio grande tejano a person of hispanic decent living in tejas tejas spanish spelling of texas texian a person of anglo decent living in texas ; after the fall of the alamo , they are simply called texans zacatecas a state in mexico prologue texas beckons i have given england a maritime rival who will sooner or later humble her pride .