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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
Joaquín Ramírez y Sesma (fl. 1835–1836) was a 19th-century general for the Republic of Mexico.. Sesma commanded the brigade sent in advance of the main body of Antonio López de Santa Anna's main body of troops that were heading to put down the rebellion in the Mexican state of Texas.
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.
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".
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.
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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 ...