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Copano (Spanish: El Copano) is a ghost town on the northwestern shore of Copano Bay in Refugio County, Texas. It is located 5 mi (8.0 km) north of present-day Bayside , on Copano Point. The port, which holds the distinction as the first in South Texas , [ 1 ] was founded in the early 18th century by the Spanish, and named for the Copane Indians ...
Ernesto Angel Ignacio Buenrostro y Buenrostro (31 July 1899 – 28 February 1966) [1] [2] was an architect of various Art Deco style residential buildings in the Hipódromo neighborhood of the Condesa area of Mexico City. His works include: Edificio San Martín (Avenida México 167; built 1931; renovated 1998-9) [3] [4]
Premio Casa de las Américas; Quinto Sol Romeo Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (January 21, 1929 – April 19, 2022) was an American novelist, essayist, poet and the Ellen Clayton Garwood professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin . [ 1 ]
[1] [2] One of his goals was to inflame the northernmost provinces, especially Spanish Texas, in the hopes that his cause might win the support of the United States. [3] On January 21, 1811, Las Casas, a retired militia captain from Nuevo Santander led a group of army sergeants at Presidio San Antonio de Bexar to stage a coup in San Antonio.
Dolores was established as a Mexican village called San José in 1860. In 1882, the Cannel Coal Company opened mines along the Rio Grande. Cannel Coal Company built the Rio Grande and Eagle Pass Railroad to ship coal from the town and renamed the San José village after its company president's daughter Dolores.
Los Adaes was the capital of Tejas (Texas) on the northeastern frontier of New Spain from 1721 to 1773. It included a Franciscan mission , San Miguel de Cuéllar de los Adaes, [ 3 ] and a presidio , Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Los Adaes (Our Lady of the Pillar of the Adaes).
The Raid on the Norias Division of the King Ranch was an attack August 8, 1915 by a large band of disaffected Mexicans and Tejanos in southern Texas.It was one of the many small battles of the Mexican Revolution that spilled over into United States soil and resulted in an increased effort by the United States Army to defend the international border.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Political history of Texas (10 C, 1 P) R. History of racism in Texas ... Blas María de la Garza Falcón;