Stephen F Austin was arrested for inciting riots and encouraging the Texians to defy Spanish law. Austin had gone to Mexico to meet with Santa Anna to try to work out a solution to the main complaints that Texians had. However while in town, a group had a small skirmish with some Spanish soldiers. Austin was there and seen as the head man in charge and therefore placed under arrest for the actions of people hundreds of miles away.
The chinese nationalist government adopted a strategy of trading space for time in its war with Japan. The japanese were also routinely attacked by : Local chinese resistance guerilla forces, acting independently of the Chinese Government
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The nativists believed that long-ago immigrants from Western Europe could become real Americans. Nativists usually believe that some skills are set into the brain at birth, or "Native". They also thought that American views were connected to Protestant Christianity.