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The population of Spanish Fort was 50 in 2000, but the majority of the structures in the square remained vacant and abandoned. [2] On February 10, 2009, an F4 tornado struck Spanish Fort. The strongest tornado of the outbreak touched down as a multiple vortex tornado just south of Spanish Fort initially snapping pecan trees. [3]
El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
Texas Military Unit(s) Commander Casualties Outcome Reference May 1846 Siege of Fort Texas: 1st Regiment Texas Mounted Rifles: John C. Hays: Unknown Victory [102] May 1846 Battle of Palo Alto: 1st Regiment Texas Mounted Rifles: John C. Hays: Unknown Victory [103] May 1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma: 7th Rifle Company 1st Regiment Texas ...
The Smokehouse Creek Fire, now the largest recorded wildfire in Texas history, has killed two people so far. By Sunday it had burned nearly 1.1 million acres and was only 15% contained, the Texas ...
Historic wildfires have decimated well over a million acres of land in the Texas panhandle. Here are some of the most compelling images.
A select committee of the Texas state Senate lambasted executives from a Houston-area power company Monday over the utility’s preparation for Hurricane Beryl, which left millions of Texas ...
The Texas Forts Trail was the first of the ten trails to be reinstated. [2] The 35-county Forest Trail Region historically is known for people such as the Caddo Indians and Spanish explorer Alonso de Leon. The region has been called the gateway to Texas, with borders with Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. The region is named for the four ...
The 300-plus-year-old glass onion bottles were discovered from the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwreck, located off the coast of Florida. ... 11 Spanish fleet ships were destroyed in a hurricane off the ...