Southern and Western Texas Guide for 1878 Paperback -

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: September 10th, 1772, it was proposed to abandon the respective missions; transferring the inhabitants to the protection of the garrisons along the line of the frontier on the borders of the Rio Grande Del Korte. Many families, though, obtained permission to establish themselves on the Trinity river, but they eventually, owing to the attacks of hostile Comanche Indians, were compelled to abandon their new settlement and seek an asylum in the Ancient Missions of Nacogdoches. MISSION DE LA CONpBPCION. Thus were the families of the early settlers scattered throughout the Province, but the hardy adventurous immigrants, from what was then known as the English- American Colonies, had pioneered their way into this favored land, and as each succeeding year added to the fast accumulating Anglo-Saxon brain and muscle, again did Spain take the alarm and fearing she would lose a territory that now gave promise of a return for the vast treasure expended upon it, enacted such sumptuary and coercive laws, that the citizens of the Province of Texas revolted against their enforcement, which resulted in their finally declaring the Province of Texas to be a free and independent Republic. Of the hard-fought battles, the terrible struggles of right against might, the self-sacrifices, and devotion to the cause in which they were enlisted, it were unnecessary for us to repeat, for the memory of that noble army of patriots is enshrined in the hearts of all Texans and also in those of all true patriots throughout the world. To particularize localities or to single out individual acts of heroism or valor would be invidious. The deeds of all alike, from the private to the highest in command, are written in indelible characters on the pages of history. Thus is the year 1836 a marked era in the life ...