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Spanish Fort is an unincorporated community in north-central Montague County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 50 in 2000. History
The US Navy retains two naval air stations as major flying training centers at Corpus Christi and Kingsville and a third naval air station (formerly a major air force base (Carswell AFB)) as a joint reserve base in Fort Worth, and the US Air Force has retained several bases as either active duty installations or via transfer to the Air Force ...
Texas Army National Guard. Robert H. McDill / T.E. Barton / H.W. Peck 0 0 Accomplished [21] 1930 Sherman Riot: Texas Rangers. Texas Army National Guard. Unknown Unknown 0 0 Accomplished [22] 1931 Red River Bridge War: Texas Rangers. Texas Air National Guard. Texas Army National Guard. Unknown Unknown Unknown 0 0 0 Inconclusive [23] 1931 East ...
Robert Whitworth may refer to: Robert Whitworth (canal engineer) (1734–1799), English land surveyor and canal engineer; Robert Whitworth (rugby union) (1914–2002), Scottish rugby union player; R. P. Whitworth (Robert Percy Whitworth, 1831–1901), journalist, writer, and editor active in Australia and New Zealand; Rob Whitworth (born 1982 ...
Fort McKavett was established during the American colonization of Texas, [1] a process that began in the 1820s with the immigration of Anglo-Americans into Spanish, later Mexican, Texas. [2] Europeans first reached the San Saba River valley, in central Texas, in the 17th century, when the Spanish Empire established contact with the Jumano people.
Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1519 until 1821. Spain claimed ownership of the region in 1519. Slave raids by Spaniards into what became Texas began in the 16th century and created an atmosphere of antagonism with Native Americans (Indians) which would cause endless difficulties for the Spanish in the future.
Spanish control of Texas was followed by Mexican control of Texas, and it can be difficult to separate the Spanish and Mexican influences on the future state. The most obvious legacy is that of the language; every major river in modern Texas, including the Red River, which was baptized by the Spaniards as Colorado de Texas, has a Spanish or ...
The Fort Martin Scott Treaty was an unratified treaty, negotiated and signed on December 10, 1850, by Indian agent John Rollins, U. S. Army Captain Hamilton W. Merrill, Captain J.B. McGown of the Texas Mounted Volunteers (Texas Rangers), and interpreters John Connor and Jesse Chisholm, as well as 12 Comanche chiefs, six Caddo chiefs, four Lipan ...