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    Henri Castro (born Moïse Henriques de Castro, July 17, 1786 – November 3, 1865), was a French diplomat who was one of the most important empresarios of...
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    population was 7,371. Its county seat is Dimmitt. The county was named for Henri Castro, who was consul general to France for the Republic of Texas and the founder...
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    version of the empresario program, offering grants to French diplomat Henri Castro and abolitionist Charles Fenton Mercer, among others. Patroon (a similar...
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    Spanish dramatist Harold Castro (born 1993), Venezuelan baseball player Héctor Castro (1904–1960), Uruguayan footballer Henri Castro (1786–1865), pioneer...
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    Ballí Santos Benavides José Tomás Canales José María Jesús Carbajal Henri Castro Josef Centeno Mariana W. de Coronel Juan Curbelo (Tejano settler) Juan...
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    county seat of Medina County. Castroville was established in 1844 by Henri Castro, an empresario of the Republic of Texas, who brought several dozen European...
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    County 1861-1871 28,659 938 sq mi (2,429 km2) Castro County 069 Dimmitt 1876 Bexar County Henri Castro (1786–1865), a French consul general for the Republic...
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  • near Verde and Lucky Creek, Vandenburg was the second settlement of Henri Castro; he named it Castroville, after himself. In 1846, while establishing...
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    Texas Centennial. In 1845, basque empresario Henri Castro laid out the town on Quihi Lake. The first of Castro's colony's families who arrived in 1846 were...
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    1840 Comanche Indians loot and sack Linnville. 1842-1847 Empresario Henri Castro contracts to bring Alsatian immigrants from France, who use Port Lavaca...
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  • Manuel Noah – American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian Henri Castro – one of the most important empresarios of the Republic of Texas Olinde...
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    early Texas leader David Gouverneur Burnet) Castroville (founded by Henri Castro, a French diplomat) Colmesnil Crockett County (Davy Crockett's ancestors...
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    German-speaking immigrants from Alsace-Lorraine brought to Texas by Henri Castro in the 1840s. : 29  It was listed on the NRHP as part of a study which...
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  • Castin Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner) Castroville, Texas – Henri Castro (settler) Catharine, New York – Catherine Montour...
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    Trader) Grace Aguilar Henri Castro Isaac Abrabanel Isaac Cardoso Isaac da Costa Isaac de Pinto Isaac de Sequeira Samuda Jacob de Castro Sarmento Jacob Rodrigues...
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  • was the first Jewish Speaker in Texas history. Steve Adler Ray Benson Henri Castro Henry Cohen Jacob De Cordova Jao de la Porta Michael Dell Kinky Friedman...
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  • Espinoza, grandfather of the world-famous philosopher, Abraham Furtado, Henri Castro, Elias Legarde, Solomon de Medina and Marc Bédarride. In addition, the...
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    Henri Lincoln Fernandes Nascimento (born February 10, 1978), known as Henri Castelli, is a Brazilian actor. Castelli was hired by Rede Globo in 1998 to...
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    Commission that designated the dam as a state historical landmark. "Henri Castro, who colonized this area in the 1840s, envisioned irrigated farms along...
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    Henry II (French: Henri II; 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) was King of France from 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Duchess...
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  • Cassia Creek or Mormon Battalion member James John Cazier Castro County Texas Henri Castro, consul general to France for the Republic of Texas and founder...
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    the specified turquoise blue. With the inauguration of president Xiomara Castro, the correct colors were restored. Between March and July 1958, Jordan and...
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    Con Rosalía de Castro en su hogar (in Galician and Spanish). Patronato Rosalía de Castro. Henri Poullain, Claude (1989). Rosalía de Castro e a súa obra...
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    culture, language, and traditions. D'Hanis was one of several towns that Henri Castro founded. D'Hanis is at an elevation of 883 feet (269 m) above sea level...
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    Stendhal (redirect from Marie-Henri Beyle)
    Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [maʁi ɑ̃ʁi bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: /ˈstɒ̃dɑːl/, US: /stɛnˈdɑːl,...
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    empresario Henri Castro's colonization of the Medina River valley in the Republic of Texas. New Fountain, was a settlement founded in 1846, by Henri Castro's colonists...
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    Register of Historic Places in 1970. Castroville was established in 1844 by Henri Castro, an empresario of the Republic of Texas, who brought several dozen European...
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    Prince Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro (born 24 February 1963) is one of the two claimants to the headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies...
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  • Henri Dorra (January 17, 1924 – June 14, 2002) was an Egyptian-born American art historian and educator. A specialist on Symbolism in French art, Dorra...
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    next oldest brother. But Henri, Count of Paris, upheld the claim of Ferdinand's younger brother, Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro (1883–1973), contending...
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