WHAT DO YOU KNOW about Waterloo?
WHAT DO YOU KNOW about Waterloo? In 1838, Texas Vice President Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar arranged for Texas Rangers to take him to the Hornsby’s farm on the Colorado River to meet Jacob Harrell. Also in the party were James Rice, Willis Avery, Edward Fontaine and a slave. The destination was the very small, primitive and dangerous Anglo settlement called Waterloo in the new nation at the edge of Comanche territory. Upon arrival Lamar stayed in the relative safety of Harrell’s cabin. The Vice President was delighted with the beautiful violet foothills and the river valley that was covered with tall grasses. +++++new paragraph+++++ Mirabeau Lamar, poet and dreamer, became the second President of the Republic of Texas and had grand ideas for a new capital city on the Colorado River. The first and third president of Texas favored Harrisburg (Houston) as the capital and opposed almost everything for which Lamar stood, which included extermination of the Indians and Texas expansion to the we...
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