Longitude: -97.485563000000
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In an attempt to support Vicente Córdova, who would lead a revolt against the Republic of Texas later that summer, Julián Pedro Miracle leads a force consisting of roughly 100 Mexican soldiers and 22 Indians (Cherokees and Caddos) from Matamoros into Texas. On June 17 they camp near Refugio, where some members of the expedition kill two Irishmen, a woman and her children.
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 117-118.
Senate Executive Documents, No. 14, “Memorandum Book,” 32 Congress, 2nd session, 15.
Cherokee Indians Original Title: Cheraquís. Cherokees’: Indigenes des E.U. du N. Amerique emigrés aux environs de Nacogdoches.
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia after José María 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 9
Longitude: -97.485563000000
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In an attempt to support Vicente Córdova, who would lead a revolt against the Republic of Texas later that summer, Julián Pedro Miracle leads a force consisting of roughly 100 Mexican soldiers and 22 Indians (Cherokees and Caddos) from Matamoros into Texas. On June 17 they camp near Refugio, where some members of the expedition kill two Irishmen, a woman and her children.
- Caddos
- Cherokees
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 117-118.
Senate Executive Documents, No. 14, “Memorandum Book,” 32 Congress, 2nd session, 15.
Cherokee Indians Original Title: Cheraquís. Cherokees’: Indigenes des E.U. du N. Amerique emigrés aux environs de Nacogdoches.
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia after José María 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 9