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Fort Graham was a pioneer fort established in 1849 by Brevet Major R.A. Arnold (Companies F and I of the Second United States Dragoons) [1] at the site of Jose Maria Village, an Anadaca camp on the western edge of present-day Hill County, Texas.
The CSA garrisoned the fort with volunteers and Texas Rangers, renaming it Rio Grande Station, which became an important port for the export of cotton into Mexico. [ 3 ] : 46 Federal troops reoccupied Fort Duncan on 23 March 1868 by the 41st Infantry under the command of Lt. Col. William R. Shafter , and Lt. Henry Ware Lawton as quartermaster .
The emergence of nuclear weapons and a period of comparative tranquility among Texas' inhabitants and neighbors saw the end of conventional fortifications in Texas. However, forts in Texas served as home bases for major US Army units, and also served as important training areas for the US military and her various allies during the Cold War.
Fort Belknap, located near Newcastle, Texas, was established in November 1851 [3] by brevet Brigadier General William G. Belknap to protect the Texas frontier against raids by the Kiowa and Comanche. It was the northernmost fort in a line from the Rio Grande to the Red River .
The officers' barracks and mess establishment at Fort York, Toronto, built in 1815 after the original 1793 fort was destroyed by American soldiers during the War of 1812. Barracks of the 117th infantry regiment in Le Mans, France (c. 1900). Officers' barracks at New Fort York made of Queenston limestone (1840), the site's only surviving structure.
Statue of Antonio Gil y Barbo, Plaza Principal, Nacogdoches, erected in 1997 The Old Stone Fort, built by Gil Ybarbo about 1790, and later reconstructed.. Dón Antonio Gil Ybarbo (1729–1809), also known as Gil Ybarbo or Gil Ibarbo was a Spanish military personnel and trader of the Spanish Texas times, who played a crucial role in the development of Nacogdoches, Texas in 1779.
Fort Brown (originally Fort Texas) was a military post of the United States Army in Cameron County, Texas, during the latter half of the 19th century and the early ...
Built by William S. Brown one of the "Old Three Hundred" and one of the oldest log houses left standing in Texas. James Walker Log House: east of Brenham: 1824 Built by James Walker one of the "Old Three Hundred" whose sons John and James Jr. fought in the Texas Revolution. One of the oldest log cabins left standing in Texas. Magee-Love Log House