The United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_annexation" id="mwSg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Texas annexation">annexes</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas" id="mwSw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republic of Texas">Republic of Texas</a> and admits it as the 28th state.<sup about="#mwt47" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_29#cite_note-7" id="mwTA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwTQ">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt44" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFO'Neill2011">O'Neill, R. (2011). <i id="mwCAs">Texas War of Independence</i>. <a href="./Rosen_Publishing" id="mwCAw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rosen Publishing">Rosen Publishing Group</a>. p.<span id="mwCA0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>85. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCA4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCA8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-4488-1332-2" id="mwCBA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4488-1332-2"><bdi id="mwCBE">978-1-4488-1332-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt44" class="Z3988" id="mwCBI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Texas+War+of+Independence&amp;rft.pages=85&amp;rft.pub=Rosen+Publishing+Group&amp;rft.date=2011&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4488-1332-2&amp;rft.aulast=O%27Neill&amp;rft.aufirst=R.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+29"></span></span>