FOOTNOTES.
[1]Called by the Spaniards, La Vaca.
[2]Now Dimmitt’s Point on the La Vaca.
[3]L’ArchevÊque afterward returned to America and settled in Santa FÉ, New Mexico, where he married and died, and where his descendants still live. See A. F. Bandelier’s Gilded Man.
[4]La Salle never married. His title was inherited by his brother, numerous descendants of whom are living in Louisiana.
[5]Charles II.
[6]The name more probably was derived from the Tehas Indians, a tribe whose central village was built on the present site of Mound Prairie.
[7]Alamo, cottonwood.
[8]These Spanish and Indian builders were called “The Children of San JosÉ.”
[9]A Mexican dance.
[10]Salcedo, the Spanish commander at Monterey, said that if “he had the power he would stop even the birds from flying across the Sabine.”
[11]Nolan afterward claimed to have made this map for the benefit of the United States government in case of a war with Spain. He wrote, upon the eve of this journey: “Will we have a war? At all events, I can cut my way back and you can rely upon me.” (Letter to General Wilkinson, June 10, 1797.)
[12]Ellis Bean’s diary.
[13]Burr at this time was suspected of a design to separate the southwestern states from the Union and found a new government.
[14]Charles IV. and Maria Louisa of Parma.
[15]Natchitoches is about forty miles from the Sabine River in a direct line. The Neutral Ground, therefore, was about thirty-three miles wide. It extended southward to the mouth of the Calcasieu River. The choice of the Arroyo Hondo as a boundary was the revival of an old compromise. The French and Spanish commandants, as early as 1719, agreed upon the Arroyo Hondo as a convenient boundary between Louisiana and New Spain. This agreement was observed until 1762, when the whole of Louisiana west of the Mississippi was ceded to Spain. The Sabine River, by a state treaty (1819), was finally fixed as the boundary.
[16]Baron de Bastrop had been an officer in the army of Frederic the Great.
[17]Texas Scrap Book.
[18]Benjamin Milam was a native of Kentucky. He fought in the War of 1812 against Great Britain. In 1823 he received from the Mexican government, for services rendered in the deposition of Iturbide, one million of acres of land in Texas, which he sold to Baring & Co., London.
He also obtained from the government of Coahuila and Texas the exclusive right to run steamboats on the Colorado River. He was unable, however, to avail himself of this right.
[19]Robert Calder.
[20]General Burleson had remained in camp during the storming of the city. He entered on the 9th. (Official Report.)
[21]Horseshoe Bend.
[22]A man named Rose, who escaped by leaping from the wall.
[23]This battle, called by the Mexicans the battle of the Encinal del Perdido, began at one o’clock P.M.
[24]Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, the father of Hal Ripley, was a brigadier-general in the United States army, and greatly distinguished himself in the war with Great Britain in 1812. He was afterward a memb
