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By the early 1830s, the Mexican War of Independence had subsided, and some 60 to 70 families had settled in Texas—most of them from the United States. Because there was no regular army to protect the citizens against attacks by native tribes and bandits, in 1823, Stephen F. Austin organized small, informal armed groups whose duties required them to range over the countryside, and who thus ...
The Texas Ranger Division, also known as the Texas Rangers and nicknamed the Diablos Tejanos (Spanish for 'Texan Devils'), [4] is an investigative law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in the U.S. state of Texas, based in the capital city Austin.
Texas Ranger Wiley G. Haines: No image available: 1860–1928 Undersheriff, County P, Oklahoma Territory; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Oklahoma Territory; Chief, Osage Indian Police John Coffee "Captain Jack" Hays: 1817–1883 Captain in the Texas Rangers; first sheriff of San Francisco (1850) Jack Helm: No image available: 1838–1873 Sheriff, DeWitt ...
Fictional characters of the Texas Ranger Division (2 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Members of the Texas Ranger Division" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total.
The first published Texian list of casualties was in the March 24, 1836 issue of the Telegraph and Texas Register. The 115 names were supplied by John W. Smith and Gerald Navan, [17] who historian Thomas Ricks Lindley believed likely drew from their own memories, as well as from interviews with those who might have left or tried to enter. [18]
First Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifle Volunteers, unofficially known as Hays's Texas Rangers, was a United States Volunteer regiment raised in June 1846, with a core of Texas Rangers, for service in the Mexican–American War. The regiment distinguished itself at the Battle of Monterrey. It was disbanded with the end of active operations in ...
Regiment of Texas Rifle Volunteers, May, June and July, and discharged August 1846. Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston (former Adjutant U.S. 6th Infantry and Adjutant General of Texas.) [46] Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers, for 6 months (7 companies), for frontier defense; July, and discharged September 1846. Colonel William C. Young [47]
John "Rip" Ford (1815–1897), Texas Rangers legend and commander at Battle of Palmito Ranch; Milton M. Holland (1844–1910), Union soldier, won Medal of Honor; John Bell Hood (1831–1879), commander of Hood's Texas Brigade and Confederate general; Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr. (1838–1915), soldier, grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson