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French colonization of Texas

La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684

The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle established a colony in Texas. It faced difficulties such as Native American raids, epidemics, and harsh conditions. La Salle led unsuccessful expeditions to find the Mississippi River, and explored the Rio Grande and East Texas. The fort could not receive resources after their last ship was wrecked and most remaining members were killed during a Karankawa raid in 1688. The colony established France's claim to the region; after the Louisiana Purchase, the colony was the basis of the United States's unsuccessful claim to this region. The Spanish monarchy funded expeditions to eliminate the settlement; when discovered, the Spanish buried the cannons and burned its buildings. Years later, Spanish authorities built a presidio at the same location; the presidio was later abandoned, and the site's location was unknown. In 1995, researchers located La Belle in Matagorda Bay, and the fort was rediscovered and excavated in 1996. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): Perhaps Donner Party on June 3
Main editors: Karanacs
Promoted: March 15, 2008
Reasons for nomination: Feb 20 is the 340th anniversary of La Salle's landing and the beginning of the colonization. This is a TFA re-run from 2009

Coordinator comment: I am unsure why this unassuming article's unimportant anniversary (340?) should allow it a second TFA. Is there some pressing reason why it should displace one of the many FAs which have not yet had their first TFA? Gog the Mild (talk) 16:07, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I try only to nominate articles where the event is an interger of 5 and 10, so that the article can appear on a more special date (especially for re-runs.). While there are lots of articles yet to appear at TFA, the community has determined that TFA re-runs need to happen since FAC is producing less than 365 articles a year. I prefer that TFA re-runs happen on associated special dates, instead of randomly assigning articles or re-runs throughout the month with no date association I also try to avoid more than 2 article re-runs in a week per the instructions. Z1720 (talk) 19:15, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 01:57, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support: It's an older FA that last ran on the 325th anniversary. I added a recent journal article to the further reading but a quick skim makes suggests that the article is still more than up to the FA standard. ~ Pbritti (talk) 00:37, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]