Longitude: -96.237703000000
- Matagorda
A presidial company from Victoria (then known as Guadalupe Victoria) attacks a Karankawa village near Arroyo Tres Palacios on Matagorda Bay (present-day Palacios). During a battle that lasts an hour and a half, six Indian men and four women are killed. The company takes 14 prisoners, including six children.
Placido Benavides to Ramon Musquiz, May 28, 1834, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin
Presidial Soldier Original Title: Solodado Mexican Persidial. Soldat des presilos des Etats Internes du Mixique
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Berlandier, Jean Louis, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 14
Longitude: -96.237703000000
- Matagorda
A presidial company from Victoria (then known as Guadalupe Victoria) attacks a Karankawa village near Arroyo Tres Palacios on Matagorda Bay (present-day Palacios). During a battle that lasts an hour and a half, six Indian men and four women are killed. The company takes 14 prisoners, including six children.
- Karankawas
Placido Benavides to Ramon Musquiz, May 28, 1834, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin
Presidial Soldier Original Title: Solodado Mexican Persidial. Soldat des presilos des Etats Internes du Mixique
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Berlandier, Jean Louis, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 14