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Mission River

River in Refugio County, Texas, United States

Field	Value
name	Mission River
image	Mission River.jpg
image_size	280
image_caption	View of Mission River from the FM 2678 bridge,
map_size	280
pushpin_map	USA Texas
pushpin_map_size	280
pushpin_map_caption	Location of the Mission River mouth in Texas
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Texas
subdivision_type3	Region
subdivision_name3	Refugio County
length	24 mi
source_confluence	Blanco Creek and Medio Creek
source_confluence_coordinates
mouth	Copano Bay
mouth_coordinates

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the river in Texas

The Mission River is a river located in Texas, in the United States of America. It is formed by the confluence of Blanco and Medio creeks in central Refugio County (at 28°19' N, 97°19' W) and runs southeast, past Refugio, for 24 mi to its mouth on Mission Bay, an inlet of Copano Bay (at 28°10' N, 97°10' W). It traverses gently undulating coastal prairies surfaced by clay and loam and spotted by groves of hardwoods and pines. It is home to myriad waterfowl and native slough grasses.

History

In 1795, Spanish friars relocated Nuestra Señora del Refugio Mission from a site near the junction of the Guadalupe River and San Antonio Rivers to the banks of the Mission River, a move that probably gave the river its name.

On March 14, 1836, during the Texas Revolution, a detachment of Texans under Amon B. King took a defensive position in one of the groves along the riverbank and repulsed repeated attacks of Mexican General José de Urrea's troops during the Battle of Refugio. Because the day's fighting nearly exhausted their supplies of gunpowder, King ordered his men to escape that night by swimming across the Mission River; they thus wetted the little powder that remained. The next day a party of Urrea's men overtook and captured King and his troops. The Texans were returned to the mission, where they were executed on March 16.

References

William H. Oberste, Texas Irish Empresarios and Their Colonies (Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1953; 2d ed. 1973).

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