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The Battle of the Salado was a decisive engagement in 1842 which repulsed the final Mexican invasion of the Republic of Texas. Colonel Mathew Caldwell of the Texas Rangers led just over 200 militia against an army of 1,600 Mexican Army soldiers and Cherokee warriors , and defeated them outside of San Antonio de Bexar along Salado Creek .
In late summer of 1848 (after Texas had become a U.S. state), a group of La Grange citizens retrieved the remains of the men killed in the Dawson Massacre from their burial site near Salado Creek. These remains, and the remains of the men killed in the failed Mier Expedition , were reinterred in a common tomb in a concrete vault on a bluff one ...
On September 17, 1842, [1] Texian and Mexican forces engaged at Salado Creek, east of San Antonio. After a separate favorable Texian engagement earlier in the day, a reinforcement company of 54 Texas militia, mostly from Fayette County , under the command of Nicholas Mosby Dawson , began advancing on the rear of the Mexican Army.
Chuck Norris shared a sad update with his fans on Friday, taking to social media to announce that his mom, Wilma (Scarberry) Norris, is dead at 103.. On Dec. 6, the Walker, Texas Ranger star ...
Chuck Norris is mourning the loss of his "wonderful" mom, Wilma Norris Knight, who has died at the age of 103.. The actor and martial artist, 84, revealed the news of his mother's death in an ...
The action star and martial artist shared his mother Wilma died on Wednesday aged 103
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist and actor. He is a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu jitsu and judo. [1] After serving in the United States Air Force, Norris won many martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do.
Chuck Norris was not one of the extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday. A rep for the 80-year-old actor tells ET he was in Texas during the riots led by supporters of Donald Trump ...