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Frontier, Logistics, Native Americans, The War Years (1775-1783) December 29, 2020 December 27, 2020

Texas and the American Revolution

by George Kotlik

In discussions on the American Revolutionary War, the contributions of Texas are seldom brought up.[1] But in the 1770s, Texas, inhabited by Spaniards and…

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