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Author Topic: 3/9/1707: Spanish expedition enters Texas  (Read 37 times)

Offline Craig Tx

3/9/1707: Spanish expedition enters Texas
« on: March 09, 2021, 01:44:09 PM »
On this day in 1707, the Ramón expedition, with thirty-one soldiers and citizens, 150 horses, and twenty pack mules, left Mission San Juan Bautista for a trek north of the Rio Grande.

Diego Ramón was sent on this excursion by Coahuila governor Alarcón to punish raiding Indians, to gather neophytes for the smallpox-ravaged Rio Grande missions, and to explore the region. After a successful expedition that reached up to the site of present-day Webb and Dimmit counties, Ramón and his men arrived back at San Juan Bautista on April 3, 1708.
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