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The Colony is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas. The population was 44,534 at the 2020 census. History.
1901 - Pretoria Boys High School founded. 1902 31 May: The Treaty of Vereeniging is signed in Melrose House marking the end of the Second Boer War and the establishment of the British Transvaal Colony. Pretoria High School for Girls founded. Premier diamond mine begins operating near Pretoria at Cullinan. 1903 - "Local self-government granted ...
Pretoria was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers, who named it after his father Andries Pretorius and chose a spot on the banks of the Apies rivier (Afrikaans for "Monkeys river") to be the new capital of the South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek; ZAR).
Disease and hardship laid waste to the colony, and by early January 1687, fewer than 45 people remained. That month, a third expedition launched a final attempt to find the Mississippi. The expedition experienced much infighting, and La Salle was ambushed and killed somewhere in East Texas. [26] The Spanish learned of the French colony in late ...
The French colonization of Texas started in 1685 when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.
The La Réunion Cemetery, also known as Fish Trap Cemetery, stands on original colony land and still serves as the final resting place for some colonists. It is maintained by the City of Dallas and is located in west Dallas . [19] The Daughters of the American Revolution placed a small memorial to the colony at a nearby golf course. The La ...
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.
By early January 1687, fewer than 45 of the 180 people in the colony remained, and the colony was plagued by internecine warfare. [ 38 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] La Salle believed their only hope of survival was an overland expedition to New France , [ 39 ] so he launched an expedition to the Illinois Country . [ 38 ]