Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 77 relations: Adelsverein, Agustín de Ahumada, 2nd Marquess of Amarillas, Apache, Apacheria, Arriero, Assay, Battle of the Twin Villages, Buffalo Hump, Charles III of Spain, Christian mission, Christianity, Clear Fork Brazos River, Coahuila, Comanche, Concho River, Council of war, Cretaceous, Curtain wall (fortification), Diego Ortiz Parrilla, Ferdinand VI, Ferdinand von Roemer, Frio River, Gossan, Gulf of California, Hacienda, Hasinai, Inspector general, Jacinto de Barrios y Jáuregui, James Bowie, Joaquín de Montserrat, 1st Marquess of Cruillas, John O. Meusebach, Juan de Ugalde, Juan Galván, Lieutenant general, Limestone, Lipan Apache people, Llano River, Louisiana, Marl, Marqués de Rubí, Menard, Texas, Meusebach–Comanche Treaty, Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá, New Spain, Nueces River, Ore, Packsaddle Mountain (Llano County, Texas), Pecos River, Pedernales River, Pedro de Rábago y Terán, ... Expand index (27 more) »

2. 1757 establishments in New Spain
3. Buildings and structures completed in 1757
4. Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
5. Spanish Texas
6. Spanish forts in the United States

Adelsverein

The Mainzer Adelsverein at Biebrich am Rhein (Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas, "Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas"), better known as the Mainzer Adelsverein ("Nobility Society of Mainz"), organized on April 20, 1842, was a colonial attempt to establish a new German settlement within the borders of Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Adelsverein

Agustín de Ahumada, 2nd Marquess of Amarillas

Agustín de Ahumada y Villalón, 2nd Marquess of Amarillas (18 September 1700 – 5 February 1760) was a Spanish military officer and Viceroy of New Spain from 1755 to 1760.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Agustín de Ahumada, 2nd Marquess of Amarillas

Apache

The Apache are several Southern Athabaskan language–speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Apache

Apacheria

Apachería was the term used to designate the region inhabited by the Apache people.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Apacheria

Arriero

An arriero, muleteer, or more informally a muleskinner (arriero; tropeiro) is a person who transports goods using pack animals, especially mules.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Arriero

Assay

An assay is an investigative (analytic) procedure in laboratory medicine, mining, pharmacology, environmental biology and molecular biology for qualitatively assessing or quantitatively measuring the presence, amount, or functional activity of a target entity.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Assay

Battle of the Twin Villages

The Battle of the Two Villages was a Spanish attack on Taovaya villages in what is now Texas and Oklahoma by a Spanish army in 1759. Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Battle of the Twin Villages are Spanish Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Battle of the Twin Villages

Buffalo Hump

Buffalo Hump (Comanche Potsʉnakwahipʉ "Erection That Won't Go Down" euphamized to "Buffalo Bull's Back") (born c. 1800 — died post 1861 / ante 1867) was a War Chief of the Penateka band of the Comanches.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Buffalo Hump

Charles III of Spain

Charles III (Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Charles III of Spain

Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Christian mission

Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Christianity

Clear Fork Brazos River

The Clear Fork Brazos River is the longest tributary of the Brazos River of Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Clear Fork Brazos River

Coahuila

Coahuila, formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (Lipan: Nacika), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza (Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Coahuila

Comanche

The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Comanche

Concho River

The Concho River is a river in the U.S. state of Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Concho River

Council of war

A council of war is a term in military science that describes a meeting held to decide on a course of action, usually in the midst of a battle.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Council of war

Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Cretaceous

Curtain wall (fortification)

A curtain wall is a defensive wall between fortified towers or bastions of a castle, fortress, or town.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Curtain wall (fortification)

Diego Ortiz Parrilla

Diego Ortiz Parrilla (1715 - November 1775) was an 18th-century Spanish military officer, governor, explorer, and cartographer. Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Diego Ortiz Parrilla are Spanish Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Diego Ortiz Parrilla

Ferdinand VI

Ferdinand VI (Fernando; 23 September 1713 – 10 August 1759), called the Learned (el Prudente) and the Just (el Justo), was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Ferdinand VI

Ferdinand von Roemer

Carl Ferdinand von Roemer (5 January 1818 – 14 December 1891), German geologist, had originally been educated for the legal profession at Göttingen, but became interested in geology, and abandoning law in 1840, studied science at the University of Berlin, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1842.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Ferdinand von Roemer

Frio River

The Frio River is a river in the U.S. state of Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Frio River

Gossan

Gossan (eiserner hut or eisenhut) is intensely oxidized, weathered or decomposed rock, usually the upper and exposed part of an ore deposit or mineral vein.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Gossan

Gulf of California

The Gulf of California (Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Gulf of California

Hacienda

A hacienda (or; or) is an estate (or finca), similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Hacienda

Hasinai

The Hasinai Confederacy (Caddo) was a large confederation of Caddo-speaking Native Americans who occupied territory between the Sabine and Trinity rivers in eastern Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Hasinai

Inspector general

An inspector general is an investigative official in a civil or military organization.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Inspector general

Jacinto de Barrios y Jáuregui

Jacinto de Barrios Leal y Jáuregui was a Spanish soldier who served as Governor of the Province of Coahuila (1759–1762; 1765–1768) and Texas (1751–59).

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Jacinto de Barrios y Jáuregui

James Bowie

James Bowie (April 10, 1796 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American pioneer, slave smuggler and trader, and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and James Bowie

Joaquín de Montserrat, 1st Marquess of Cruillas

Joaquín de Montserrat, 1st Marquess of Cruillas (June 26, 1700 – November 21, 1771) was Spanish viceroy of New Spain, from October 6, 1760 to August 24, 1766.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Joaquín de Montserrat, 1st Marquess of Cruillas

John O. Meusebach

John O. Meusebach (May 26, 1812 – May 27, 1897), born Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach, was at first a Prussian bureaucrat, later an American farmer and politician who served in the Texas Senate, District 22.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and John O. Meusebach

Juan de Ugalde

Juan de Ugalde (December 9, 1729 – 1816), later referred to erroneously as Juan de Uvalde by American settlers, was the Governor of Coahuila, now in Mexico.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Juan de Ugalde

Juan Galván

Juan Galván (?–?) was a Spanish soldier and explorer who served as an ensign and explorer in San Antonio, Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Juan Galván

Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Lieutenant general

Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Limestone

Lipan Apache people

Lipan Apache are a band of Apache, a Southern Athabaskan Indigenous people, who have lived in the Southwest and Southern Plains for centuries.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Lipan Apache people

Llano River

The Llano River is a tributary of the Colorado River, about long, in Texas in the United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Llano River

Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Louisiana

Marl

Marl is an earthy material rich in carbonate minerals, clays, and silt.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Marl

Marqués de Rubí

Cayetano Maria Pignatelli Rubí Corbera y San Climent (c. 1725 - 1795 or 1796) was a Spanish nobleman.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Marqués de Rubí

Menard, Texas

Menard is a city in and the county seat of Menard County, Texas, United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Menard, Texas

Meusebach–Comanche Treaty

The Meusebach–Comanche Treaty was a treaty made on May 9, 1847 between the private citizens of the Fisher–Miller Land Grant in Texas (United States), who were predominantly German in nationality, and the Penateka Comanche Tribe.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Meusebach–Comanche Treaty

Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá

Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá was one of the Spanish missions in Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá

New Spain

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain. Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and New Spain are Spanish Texas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and New Spain

Nueces River

The Nueces River (Río Nueces) is a river in the U.S. state of Texas, about long.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Nueces River

Ore

Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Ore

Packsaddle Mountain (Llano County, Texas)

Named after the saddle-like appearance provided by twin peaks, Packsaddle Mountain is a landmark hill that stands five miles southwest of Kingsland, Texas in eastern Llano County on State Highway 71 and is of interest to both historians and geologists.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Packsaddle Mountain (Llano County, Texas)

Pecos River

The Pecos River (Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Pecos River

Pedernales River

The Pedernales River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately long, in Central Texas in the United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Pedernales River

Pedro de Rábago y Terán

Don Pedro de Rábago y Terán (died 1756) was a Spanish administrator and military officer in New Spain, now Mexico.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Pedro de Rábago y Terán

Presidio

A presidio (jail, fortification) was a fortified base established by the Spanish Empire between the 16th and 18th centuries in areas under their control or influence. Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and presidio are Spanish forts in the United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Presidio

Presidio La Bahía

The Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía, known more commonly as Presidio La Bahía, or simply La Bahía, is a fort constructed by the Spanish Army. Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Presidio La Bahía are forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas, Spanish Texas and Spanish forts in the United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Presidio La Bahía

Presidio of San Sabá

The Presidio of San Sabá was the second presidio established at the site of present-day Menard, Texas on the San Saba River. Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and presidio of San Sabá are Spanish forts in the United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Presidio of San Sabá

Presidio San Antonio de Béxar

Presidio de Béxar was a Spanish fort built near the San Antonio River, located in what is now San Antonio, Texas, in the United States. Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Presidio San Antonio de Béxar are forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas, Spanish Texas and Spanish forts in the United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Presidio San Antonio de Béxar

Red River of the South

The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South to differentiate it from the Red River in the north of the continent, is a major river in the Southern United States. It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. It is known as the Red River of the South to distinguish it from the Red River of the North, which flows between Minnesota and North Dakota into the Canadian province of Manitoba.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Red River of the South

Robert Neighbors

Robert Simpson Neighbors (November 3, 1815 – September 14, 1859) was an Indian agent and Texas state legislator.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Robert Neighbors

San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and San Antonio

San Saba River

The San Saba River is a river in Texas, United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and San Saba River

San Sabá fight (1831)

The San Sabá fight was an armed encounter between a heavily outnumbered group of American prospectors led by James Bowie and a band of Tawakoni, Waco and Caddo Indians, which took place on the San Saba River in Mexican Texas, on November 21, 1831.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and San Sabá fight (1831)

Santa Anna (Comanche)

Santa Anna (circa 1800 – 1849) was a Native American war chief of the Penateka tribe of the Comanche Indians.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Santa Anna (Comanche)

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Santa Fe, New Mexico

Scurvy

Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Scurvy

Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Seven Years' War

Silver mining

Silver mining is the extraction of silver by mining.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Silver mining

Sinaloa

Sinaloa, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa (Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Sinaloa

Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Smelting

Sonora

Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Sonora

Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Spain

Spaniards

Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Spaniards

Stephen F. Austin

Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Stephen F. Austin

Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Texas

Texas Forts Trail

The Texas Forts Trail is a nonprofit organization chartered in 1999 which promotes heritage tourism, economic development, and historic preservation.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Texas Forts Trail

Tonkawa

The Tonkawa are a Native American tribe who now live in Oklahoma.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Tonkawa

United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and United States

Viceroy

A viceroy is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Viceroy

Wichita people

The Wichita people, or Kitikiti'sh, are a confederation of Southern Plains Native American tribes.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Wichita people

Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

See Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas and Works Progress Administration

See also

1757 establishments in New Spain

• Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas

Buildings and structures completed in 1757

• Frederiks Hospital
• Middlesex Hospital
• Mount Vernon Cemetery (West Boylston, Massachusetts)
• Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas
• Woodstock Hall Tavern
• Zunfthaus zur Meisen

Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas

• Fort Belknap (Texas)
• Fort Brown
• Fort Chadbourne
• Fort Clark, Texas
• Fort Concho
• Fort Crockett
• Fort D. A. Russell (Texas)
• Fort Davis National Historic Site
• Fort Duncan
• Fort Griffin
• Fort Inge
• Fort Lancaster
• Fort Leaton State Historic Site
• Fort Martin Scott
• Fort McIntosh, Texas
• Fort McKavett State Historic Site
• Fort Phantom Hill
• Fort Richardson (Texas)
• Fort Sam Houston
• Fort Travis Seashore Park
• Presidio La Bahía
• Presidio San Antonio de Béxar
• Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas

Spanish Texas

• Adams–Onís Treaty
• Battle of Medina
• Battle of Rosillo Creek
• Battle of the Twin Villages
• Blas María de la Garza Falcón
• Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
• Chamuscado and Rodríguez Expedition
• Diego Ortiz Parrilla
• El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail
• Empresario
• Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition
• Humana and Leyva expedition
• Juan de Oñate
• La Toma
• Le Poste des Cadodaquious
• List of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition
• Long Expedition
• Los Adaes
• Main and Military Plazas Historic District
• Mission Dolores State Historic Site
• Neutral Ground (Louisiana)
• New Spain
• Old San Antonio Road
• Presidio La Bahía
• Presidio San Antonio de Béxar
• Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas
• Provincias Internas
• Síndico Procurador
• Sabine Expedition
• Spanish Lake community
• Spanish Texas
• Spanish missions in Texas
• Spanish peace treaties with the Comanche

Spanish forts in the United States

• Castillo de San Marcos
• Cestohowa, Texas
• Chiaha
• Cubo Line
• Fort Barrancas
• Fort Carlos III
• Fort Charlotte, Mobile
• Fort George (Pensacola, Florida)
• Fort Guijarros
• Fort Matanzas National Monument
• Fort Mose
• Fort Point National Historic Site
• Fort San Carlos
• Fort San Fernando De Las Barrancas
• Fort San Francisco de Pupo
• Fort San Juan (Joara)
• Fort St. Philip
• Joara
• Los Adaes
• Presidio
• Presidio La Bahía
• Presidio San Antonio de Béxar
• Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas
• Presidio Santa Maria de Galve
• Presidio of San Sabá
• San Juan National Historic Site
• Santa Elena (Spanish Florida)
• Spanish Fort (Colorado)
• Spanish Fort (New Orleans)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_San_Luis_de_las_Amarillas

Also known as Presidio San Saba.

, Presidio, Presidio La Bahía, Presidio of San Sabá, Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, Red River of the South, Robert Neighbors, San Antonio, San Saba River, San Sabá fight (1831), Santa Anna (Comanche), Santa Fe, New Mexico, Scurvy, Seven Years' War, Silver mining, Sinaloa, Smelting, Sonora, Spain, Spaniards, Stephen F. Austin, Texas, Texas Forts Trail, Tonkawa, United States, Viceroy, Wichita people, Works Progress Administration.