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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.
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 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 ...
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.
The Brazos River (/ ˈ b r æ z ə s / ⓘ BRAZ-əs, Spanish:), called the Río de los Brazos de Dios (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") by early Spanish explorers, is the 14th-longest river in the United States at 1,280 miles (2,060 km) from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Roosevelt County, New Mexico [2] to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a 45,000-square ...
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".
Brazos (band), the moniker of Martin McNulty Crane; Battle of the Brazos, an athletic rivalry between Baylor University and Texas A&M University; Brazos Press, an imprint of Baker Publishing Group; Brazos, a generation of AMD Accelerated Processing Units
The first military action taken by the new army was the Battle of Gonzales on October 2, 1835. After a skirmish, the Mexican troops withdrew to San Antonio, leaving the cannon with the Texians. [15] After the battle ended, disgruntled colonists continued to assemble in Gonzales, eager to put a decisive end to Mexican control over the area. [16]