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Texas Archive War: Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers: Thomas I. Smith / Eli Chandler 0 Failure [11] 1844 Regulator–Moderator War: Texas Militia: Travis G. Broocks / Alexander Horton Unknown Accomplished [12] 1857 Cart War: Texas Militia: Unknown 0 Accomplished [13] 1886 Laredo Election Riot Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers. Texas Militia ...
On March 15, 1887, the Texas legislature passed legislation that divided Presidio County into four counties: Presidio, Jeff Davis, Foley and Buchel. [1]: 824–825 Named after German soldier and war hero Augustus Buchel, the county occupied the northeast corner of what is now Brewster County including the town of Marathon which was to serve as the county seat.
Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara took up the effort to free Texas from Spain. Colonel Gutiérrez visited Washington, D.C., gaining some support for his plans. In 1812, Colonel Augustus Magee, who as a lieutenant had commanded U.S. Army troops guarding the border of the Neutral Ground and Spanish Texas, resigned his commission and formed the Republican Army of the North to aid the Gutiérrez–Magee ...
A panoramic view of Marathon, Texas. Marathon (/ ˈ m ær ə θ ən /) [3] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Brewster County, Texas, United States. The population was 410 at the 2020 census, [4] down from 430 in 2010, [5] 470 in 2007, [6] and 455 in 2000. As of 2012 Marathon services tourists traveling to Big Bend National Park. [7]
Texan Iliad – A Military History of the Texas Revolution. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73086-1. OCLC 29704011. Huson, Hobart (1974). Captain Phillip Dimmitt's Commandancy of Goliad, 1835–1836: An Episode of the Mexican Federalist War in Texas, Usually Referred to as the Texan Revolution. Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann ...
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
Martín Perfecto de Cos (1800–1 October 1854) was a Mexican Army general and politician during the mid-19th century. Born in Veracruz, the son of an attorney, he became an army cadet at the age of 20, a Lieutenant in 1821, and a Brigadier General in 1833.
Benjamin Rush Milam (October 20, 1788 – December 7, 1835) was an American colonist of Mexican Texas and a military leader and hero of the Texas Revolution.A native of what is now Kentucky, Milam fought beside American interests during the Mexican War of Independence and later joined the Texians in their own fight for independence, for which he assumed a leadership role.