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2nd Edition 1984. Hardly any wear to the cover. Pages are excellent with no marks or notes.; 309 pages.

Fort Defiance Goliad fold-out diagram present at back of book, 309 pages including Index. Dust jacket has minor edge wear & protected with Brodart dust jacket plastic cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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The long history of Texas coastal area near Matagorda Bay, French and Spanish exploration, Spanish colonial rule and the establishment of the Presidio at Goliad, the Texas Revolution & battles of Coleto and the massacre of Fannin's troops at Goliad, later history and restoration of the site. Many b/w images, rear fold-out map, index. Near Fine/Wraps. Solid Binding, no owner marks. Item # E4958. **SAVE MORE** Additional books in the same order ship for FREE via Standard Shipping.

THE PRESIDIO LA BAHIA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO DE ZUNIGA, 1721 TO 1846, Kathryn Stoner O'Connor, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket (price never printed), probable first edition, illustrated, also has a fold out map of the Fort Defiance grounds at Goliad, 1966. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dog ears, or marks. No signature or bookplate of prior owner. The author signed the first free endpaper. Above her signature an inscription has been cut out of the page (one inch by five inches). Not a library book or a remainder. The beautifully bound cloth boards are in very good condition. The dust jacket is in good condition (chipping and crinkling along edges, somewhat faded spine). 9 ¼ x 6 ¼, 309 pages, 26 ounces XX [Wikipedia] In the 1960s, local philanthropist Kathryn O'Connor donated $1 million to restore the presidio. Construction took place between 1963 and 1968, under the oversight of architect Raiford Stripling. In his Spanish Missions of Texas, Herbert Malloy Mason remarked that the presidio was one of the finest examples of Spanish ecclesiastical building on the North American continent. XX 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 that became the nucleus of the modern-day city of Goliad, Texas, United States. The current location dates to 1747. During the Texas Revolution, the presidio was the site of the Battle of Goliad in October 1835, and the Goliad massacre in March 1836. It was restored in the 1960s and became a National Historic Landmark in 1967. While several adjacent historical sites in Goliad are now part of the Texas state parks system, La Bahía is owned by the Catholic Diocese of Victoria, Texas but operates as a public museum. XX Founded in 1721 on the ruins of the failed French Fort Saint Louis, the presidio was moved to a location on the Guadalupe River in 1726. In 1747, the presidio and its mission were moved to their current location on the San Antonio River. By 1771, the presidio had been rebuilt in stone and had become the only Spanish fortress for the entire Gulf Coast from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the Mississippi River. The civilian settlement, later named Goliad, sprang up around the presidio in the late 18th century; the area was one of the three most important in Spanish Texas. The presidio was captured by insurgents twice during the Mexican War of Independence, by the Republican Army of the North in 1813 and by the Long Expedition in 1821. Each time the insurgents were later defeated by Spanish troops. By the end of 1821, Texas became part of the newly formed United Mexican States. La Bahía was one of the two major garrisons in Mexican Texas and lay halfway between San Antonio de Béxar (the political center of Spanish Texas) and Copano, the then major port in Texas. In October 1835, days after the beginning of the Texas Revolution, a group of Texian insurgents marched on La Bahía. After a 30-minute battle, the Mexican garrison surrendered and the Texians gained control of the presidio, which they soon renamed Fort Defiance.

2nd Edition 1984. Hardly any wear to the cover. Pages are excellent with no marks or notes.; 309 pages.

309 Pgs/illus/folding map. The materials presented in this book are from family records, military records, old scrapbooks, old histories, personal interviews, the Spanish-Mexican and Texas Archives at the University of Texas Austin and other previously published works. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and drawings. Clean.