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The Battle of the Brazos is an American college football rivalry game between the Baylor Bears and Texas A&M Aggies. [2] [3] The rivalry is named for the Brazos River that flows by the two schools, which are 90 miles apart. [4] The Battle of the Brazos debuted in 1899.
The Battle of the Brazos River [1] was an engagement fought in the Brazos River on April 17, 1837, between the Mexican Navy and the Texian Navy. [2] Background.
On March 19, 1858, Ford went to the Brazos Reservation, near what today is the city of Fort Worth, Texas, to recruit the Tonkawa to join him. Indian agent Captain L.S. Ross, father of future governor of Texas Lawrence Sullivan Ross , called Chief Placido of the Tonkawa to a war council, where Ross stirred Placido's anger against their mutual enemy.
Washington-on-the-Brazos is known as "the birthplace of Texas" because, on March 1, 1836, Texas delegates met in the town to formally announce Texas' intention to separate from Mexico and to draft a constitution for the new Republic of Texas. They organized an interim government to serve until a permanent one could be formed. [5]
The Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site is a historic site at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, where the Convention of 1836 adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence. The government of Texas purchased 50 acres (20 ha) of the old townsite in 1916 and built a replica of the building where the delegates met. The state acquired more of ...
Under head coach R. H. Hamilton, the team played all four games at home in Waco, Texas, compiling a 2–1–1 record. [2] [3] Initially, Baylor played its home games on an undetermined field near the university. Baylor played its first game against Texas A&M, which would become a rivalry, the Battle of the Brazos, with over 100 games played in ...
Robert G. Carter, in the Civil War. Born in Bridgton, Maine, Carter moved to Portland with his family in 1847, and again in 1857, to Massachusetts.He was preparing to enter Phillips Academy when Carter enlisted as a private in the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry at the start of the American Civil War and remained with the Army of the Potomac from August 5, 1862, until October 4, 1864.
Fort Bend was a blockhouse built in a large bend of the Brazos River in what is now Fort Bend County, Texas, to provide protection against Indian raids.It was erected in November 1822 by several members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, including William W. Little, Joseph Polley, William Smithers [Smeathers], Charles Beard, Henry Holster and is described as a "little log shanty".