USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The settlement on the right bank of Garcitas Creek in southern Victoria County has been called Fort St. Louis, but in fact it had no name, only a description. La Salle himself referred to it as “the habitation on the riviére aux Boeufs [Buffalo River] near the baye Saint-Louis."

Detailed explanation-2: -The first settlement, called the Villa de Bexar, was little more than civilian housing for families of soldiers stationed at the presidio, and did not qualify under Spanish law as an official town.

Detailed explanation-3: -The French colonization of Texas began with the establishment of a fort in present-day southeastern Texas. Fort Saint Louis was established in 1685 near Arenosa Creek and Matagorda Bay by explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle.

Detailed explanation-4: -This settlement was founded by a French explorer named Robert Rene de La Salle and by him was named Fort St Louis in honor of his King, Louis the XIV of France.

Detailed explanation-5: -FORT ST. LOUIS SITE This site commemorates the first French attempt to colonize the gulf coast, which created special Spanish interest in Texas. In 1685, La Salle, intending to plant a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi, led 400 colonists and soldiers instead into present Texas, where he founded Fort St.