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Juan Nepomuceno Seguin was born on October 27, 1806, in San Antonio de Bexar, Province of Texas, Viceroyalty of New Spain, to Juan José María Erasmo Seguin, a second-generation Bexareño, and Maria Josefa Becerra. As the son of a postal administrator, he would help his mother in business, while his father was one of the drafting rapporteurs ...
Erasmo Seguín. Juan José María Erasmo de Jesús Seguín y Fuentes (May 26, 1782 – October 30, 1857) was a prominent citizen and politician in San Antonio de Bexar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, USA) in the 19th century. From 1807 until 1835, Seguín served as head postmaster of San Antonio, Texas. After Mexico achieved independence from ...
Sequin. Round, flat sequins. A close-up of a gold sequin-covered shoe. A sequin ( / ˈsiːkwɪn /) is a small, typically shiny, generally disk-shaped ornament. Sequins are also referred to as paillettes, spangles, or diamanté (also spelled diamante ). Although the words sequins, paillettes, lentejuelas, and spangles can be used interchangeably ...
The Battle of San Jacinto ( Spanish: Batalla de San Jacinto ), fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day La Porte and Deer Park, Texas, was the final and decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Samuel Houston, the Texan Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna 's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 ...
Website. seguintexas.gov. Seguin in 1932. Seguin ( / sɪˈɡiːn / sih-GEEN) is a city in and the county seat of Guadalupe County, Texas, United States. [6] The population was 29,433 at the 2020 census, [3] and according to 2023 census estimates, the city is estimated to have a population of 36,013. [4]
1865–1899. Years in Texas. Texas portal. v. t. e. Following the defeat of the Confederate States in the American Civil War, Texas was mandated to rejoin the United States of America. Union Army soldiers officially occupied the state starting on June 19, 1865. For the next nine years, Texas was governed by a series of provisional governors as ...
1964. Delisted TSHS. 2011. Sebastopol House Historic Site is an antebellum Greek Revival house built of concrete, located in Seguin, Texas, United States. Joshua W. Young built it between 1854 and 1856 for his sister, Catherine LeGette. [2] Today Sebastopol is one of some 20 surviving buildings that give Seguin the largest concentration of ...
The Comanche Trail, sometimes called the Comanche War Trail or the Comanche Trace, was a travel route in Texas established by the nomadic Comanche and their Kiowa and Kiowa Apache allies. Although called a "trail," the Comanche Trail was actually a network of parallel and branching trails, always running from one source of good water to another ...