This Day In Texas History - February 25
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:24 am
1707 - Coahuila governor Martín de Alarcón ordered Diego Ramón, commandant of the San Juan Bautista Presidio, to undertake an expedition north of the Rio Grande. The effort was to serve several ends: to punish hostile natives who had been raiding the Coahuila and Nuevo León settlements; to obtain a new crop of neophytes for the smallpox-ravaged Rio Grande missions; and to explore the country. With authority to proceed as far as the "San Marcos" River-identified as the present-day Colorado River-Ramón marched from San Juan Bautista on March 9, 1707, with thirty-one soldiers and citizens, 150 horses, and twenty pack mules. This became known as "The Ramon Expedition".
1749 - San Ildefonso Mission was established in present day Milam County.
1836 - Travis's call for help reached Goliad. Fannin planned to leave the next day with 320 volunteers and four pieces of artillery to join Travis, calling in Chenoweth's mounted men from Copano to hold the Cibolo crossing and Captain King's company from Refugio to strengthen the Goliad garrison, now left under Ira Westover. Fannin's march to relieve Travis at Bexar. However the relief comumn ended on the banks of the San Antonio River only two miles from Fort Defiance. Wagons broke down, oxen strayed, provisions were scarce, and the anxious volunteers all insisted on going along. Fannin's men lacked shoes and clothing-many were barefooted and nearly naked, and faced a well-provisioned and trained enemy of superior numbers; Fannin's aide-de-camp, John Sowers Brooks, wrote, "we can not rationally anticipate any other result to our Quixotic expedition than total defeat."
1836 - Antonio Cruz y Arocha, Alamo defender and courier, along with Juan Seguín, was sent out of the Alamo to rally reinforcements.
1836 - Samuel Colt, of Hartford, Connecticut, patented the Colt revolver. This invention, along with windmills and barbed wire, brought order to the Great Plains. It was eventually produced in numerous models, the most famous being that of 1871. In 1839 the Republic of Texas ordered 180 of the .36 caliber holster models for the Texas Navy. The Texas Rangers gave the Colt revolver its reputation as a weapon ideally suited for mounted combat. Frederick Law Olmsted remarked that "there were probably as many revolvers in Texas as there were males."
1839 - John Rhodes King, legislator, Texas Ranger, Confederate officer, participated in forming a joint-stock company to purchase and survey land for a new town, named Seguin in honor of Juan N. Seguín. He became the first mayor of Seguin.
1800 - Jean Marie Odin was born in Hauteville, France. Odin arrived in Texas in 1840 and for the next two decades worked tirelessly; his efforts produced such outstanding results that he has been acclaimed the founder of the modern Catholic Church in Texas. In 1847 Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Galveston, which encompassed all of Texas, and named Odin the new diocese's first ordinary.
1870 - The Howard Bill, closely resembling earlier proposals in Congress, was introduced. It called for two territories, Jefferson east of the San Antonio River, and Matagorda west of the Colorado. The remaining portion of the state should retain the name Texas and be readmitted to the Union in accordance with Reconstruction plans. The two territories were to be admitted when they were deemed ready to exercise the functions of statehood. In Texas itself, Edmund J. Davis's regime came forth in 1871 with a proposal for a four-part division into western, northern, eastern, and southern. Congress failed to take final action, however, as did the Texas legislature.
1871 - Colonel Ranald Slidell (Bad Hand) Mackenzie assumed command of the Fourth United States Cavalry at Fort Concho.
1927 - WFAA in Dallas becomes the first radio station in Texas to be come affiliated with a national network, the National Broadcasting Company.
1942 - Trinity University moved from Waxahachie to San Antonio. Trinity had opened as a Cumberland Presbyterian college in 1869 in Tehuacana and moved to Waxahachie in 1902. Forty years later, the Synod of Texas voted to accept an invitation from the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce to move the university to the Alamo City.
1749 - San Ildefonso Mission was established in present day Milam County.
1836 - Travis's call for help reached Goliad. Fannin planned to leave the next day with 320 volunteers and four pieces of artillery to join Travis, calling in Chenoweth's mounted men from Copano to hold the Cibolo crossing and Captain King's company from Refugio to strengthen the Goliad garrison, now left under Ira Westover. Fannin's march to relieve Travis at Bexar. However the relief comumn ended on the banks of the San Antonio River only two miles from Fort Defiance. Wagons broke down, oxen strayed, provisions were scarce, and the anxious volunteers all insisted on going along. Fannin's men lacked shoes and clothing-many were barefooted and nearly naked, and faced a well-provisioned and trained enemy of superior numbers; Fannin's aide-de-camp, John Sowers Brooks, wrote, "we can not rationally anticipate any other result to our Quixotic expedition than total defeat."
1836 - Antonio Cruz y Arocha, Alamo defender and courier, along with Juan Seguín, was sent out of the Alamo to rally reinforcements.
1836 - Samuel Colt, of Hartford, Connecticut, patented the Colt revolver. This invention, along with windmills and barbed wire, brought order to the Great Plains. It was eventually produced in numerous models, the most famous being that of 1871. In 1839 the Republic of Texas ordered 180 of the .36 caliber holster models for the Texas Navy. The Texas Rangers gave the Colt revolver its reputation as a weapon ideally suited for mounted combat. Frederick Law Olmsted remarked that "there were probably as many revolvers in Texas as there were males."
1839 - John Rhodes King, legislator, Texas Ranger, Confederate officer, participated in forming a joint-stock company to purchase and survey land for a new town, named Seguin in honor of Juan N. Seguín. He became the first mayor of Seguin.
1800 - Jean Marie Odin was born in Hauteville, France. Odin arrived in Texas in 1840 and for the next two decades worked tirelessly; his efforts produced such outstanding results that he has been acclaimed the founder of the modern Catholic Church in Texas. In 1847 Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Galveston, which encompassed all of Texas, and named Odin the new diocese's first ordinary.
1870 - The Howard Bill, closely resembling earlier proposals in Congress, was introduced. It called for two territories, Jefferson east of the San Antonio River, and Matagorda west of the Colorado. The remaining portion of the state should retain the name Texas and be readmitted to the Union in accordance with Reconstruction plans. The two territories were to be admitted when they were deemed ready to exercise the functions of statehood. In Texas itself, Edmund J. Davis's regime came forth in 1871 with a proposal for a four-part division into western, northern, eastern, and southern. Congress failed to take final action, however, as did the Texas legislature.
1871 - Colonel Ranald Slidell (Bad Hand) Mackenzie assumed command of the Fourth United States Cavalry at Fort Concho.
1927 - WFAA in Dallas becomes the first radio station in Texas to be come affiliated with a national network, the National Broadcasting Company.
1942 - Trinity University moved from Waxahachie to San Antonio. Trinity had opened as a Cumberland Presbyterian college in 1869 in Tehuacana and moved to Waxahachie in 1902. Forty years later, the Synod of Texas voted to accept an invitation from the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce to move the university to the Alamo City.
