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The failure of the 1843 raids ended Texas's attempts, as an independent country, to capture territory in New Mexico. Texas joined the United States as a state in 1845, an event which precipitated the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848. New Mexico was captured by U.S. forces and became part of the United States. [8]
FIPS code. 48-65726 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1351043 [3] Website. ci.santa-fe.tx.us. Santa Fe (English: Holy Faith) is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States. It is named for the Santa Fe Railroad (now part of BNSF Railway) which runs through the town alongside State Highway 6. The population of Santa Fe at the 2020 census was 12,735.
The Texan Santa Fe Expedition was a failed commercial and military expedition in 1841 by the Republic of Texas with the objective of competing with the lucrative trade conducted over the Santa Fe Trail and the ulterior motive of annexing to Texas the eastern one-half of New Mexico, then a province of Mexico. [1][2] Map of the Santa Fe Trail (in ...
After the Vietnam War, conflict arose on the Texas Gulf Coast between white fishermen and newly arrived Vietnamese shrimpers. On February 14, 1981, the Ku Klux Klan hosted a fish fry on a private farm in Santa Fe, to protest the growing presence of Vietnamese shrimpers.
Aug. 12—An American steakhouse chain known for its fluffy rolls and whipped honey butter is officially coming to Santa Fe. That's right — Texas Roadhouse will soon bring its buttery rolls to ...
Santa Fe High School shooting. On May 18, 2018, a school shooting occurred at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, United States, in the Houston metropolitan area. Ten people – eight students and two teachers – were fatally shot, and thirteen others were wounded. [1][2] Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student at the school, was ...
A key piece of evidence was a short article in the Santa Fe New Mexican in 1895 describing his death by murder, which noted: [14] He was a Frenchman, and was favorably known in Santa Fe as an expert worker in wood. He build [sic] the handsome stair-case in the Loretto chapel and at St. Vincent sanitarium.
1585. (1586) (aged 45) Habana, Cuba. Nationality. Spanish. Occupation. Explorer. Antonio de Espejo (1540–1585) was a Spanish explorer who led an expedition, accompanied by Diego Perez de Luxan, into New Mexico and Arizona in 1582–83. [1][2] The expedition created interest in establishing a Spanish colony among the Pueblo Indians of the Rio ...