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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.
A map of Mexico, 1835–46, showing administrative divisions. The Runaway Scrape events took place mainly between September 1835 and April 1836 and were the evacuations by Texas residents fleeing the Mexican Army of Operations during the Texas Revolution, from the Battle of the Alamo through the decisive Battle of San Jacinto.
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.
The 1989 Baylor Bears football team represented the Baylor University in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Bears finished the season fourth in the Southwest Conference. In the season's final game, Baylor defeated Texas by the score of 50 to 7. It was Baylor's seventh victory in Austin and the first there since 1951
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.
Yegua Creek is a river in Central Texas [1] and is part of the Brazos River drainage basin. (Yegua is the Spanish word for mare.) Yegua Creek forms in Lee County at the confluence of the Middle Yegua Creek and East Yegua Creek about three miles west of Somerville Lake. It is the primary tributary to form Somerville Lake.
Immortal 32 Centennial Monument by Raoul Josset, 1936. Gonzales Memorial Museum, Gonzales, Texas.. The Immortal 32 was a relief force of thirty-two Texian Militia from the Gonzales Ranger Company who reinforced the Texians under siege at the Alamo. [1]
During the early part of Civil War, an early fort (also named as Fort Velasco) was built near the location of the Republic Of Texas fort, mounting two 18-pound cannon, but was augmented in the winter of 1863-1863 by a larger stacked-earth emplacement with five gun platforms known as Fort Sulakowski or Fort Velasco, at a point nearer the ...