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Maison Goyard, or simply Goyard, is a French fashion house established in 1792 in Paris; [1] the company operated as Maison Goyard by founder Fashion designer Francois Goyard [2] [3] The brand is known for a certain amount of secrecy surrounding its products; little is known of the origins of the iconic interlocking Chevron pattern, seen on many Goyard bags.
A 1727 Spanish map records them living in the area. [5] The first declaration of independence for the Republic of Texas was signed in Goliad on December 20, 1835, although the formal declaration was made by the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Goliad County was the site of two battles in the Texas Revolution.
In 1747, the Spanish government sent José de Escandón to inspect the northern frontier of its North American colonies, including Spanish Texas.In his final report, Escandón recommended the Presidio La Bahía be moved from its Guadalupe River location to the banks of the San Antonio River, so it could better assist settlements along the Rio Grande. [7]
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520. While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18] This map is the earliest recorded document of Texas ...
Duval County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 9,831. [1] [2] The county seat is San Diego. [3] The county was founded in 1858 and later organized in 1876. [4] It is named for Burr H. Duval, a soldier in the Texas Revolution who died in the Goliad Massacre.
Uvalde is a city in and the county seat of Uvalde County, Texas, United States. [6] The population was 15,217 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 15,751 in 2010. It is the principal city in the Uvalde, Texas Micropolitan Statistical Area.
In 1825, Robert Harris Williams was supposed to have built the first cotton gin in Texas along the banks of Caney Creek. During the American Civil War the local Confederate commander John B. Magruder fortified the mouth of Caney Creek, and in January and February 1864 these defenses repelled a Federal naval attack.
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...