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http://www.txcn.com/s/texas/texas_history.html - 12/10/09 10:24:25 - 03/23/09 19:37:41
Nov. 11, 2009
1833 About 60 people set sail from New York bound for Texas to found what would become Bealess Rio Grande Colony, a settlement on Las Moras Creek near Presidio del Rio Grande. Poor crops, Indian attacks and Santa Annas invasion would eventually cause the colony to fail.