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The Forts of Texas include a number of historical and operational military installations. For over 200 years, various groups fought over access to or control over the region that is now Texas . Possession of the region was claimed and disputed by the European powers of Spain and France , and the continental countries of Mexico , the United ...
The history of conflicts involving the Texas Military spans over two centuries, from 1823 to present, under the command authority (the ultimate source of lawful military orders) of four governments including the Texas governments (3), American government, Mexican government, and Confederate government.
Fort Tenoxtitlán Texas State Historical Society plaque. Fort Tenoxtitlán was established by Mexico in 1830 in what later became Burleson County, Texas.The fortification was in accordance with the Law of April 6, 1830 to deter colonization from the United States. [1]
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
On February 11, 1858, the Seventh Texas Legislature approved O.B. 102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first publicly funded university [15] (the $100,000 was an allocation from the $10 million the state received pursuant to the Compromise of 1850 ...
Allen, where a gunman killed eight people at a mall on May 6, is among the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s most diverse suburbs. For nearly a century, Texas has had a one-word state motto ...
More than 50 people lined up at the entrance to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden on Saturday morning to protest the True Texas Project’s conference and 15-year birthday party.. As cars poured in ...
Fort Griffin, now a Texas state historic site as Fort Griffin State Historic Site, was a US Cavalry fort established 31 July 1867 by four companies of the Sixth Cavalry, U.S. Army [2] under the command of Lt. Col. S. D. Sturgis, [3]: 64 in the western part of North Texas, specifically northwestern Shackelford County, to give settlers protection from early Comanche and Kiowa raids.