Champ d’Asile [Engraving]
Champ-d'Asile: work of the settlers for the establishment of their city.
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Champ d’Asile [Engraving]Context
This engraving presents a greatly romanticized image of a short-lived French Bonapartist refugee venture near present-day Liberty, Texas, in 1818. With the likely goal of joining revolutionary forces in Mexico to place a Bonaparte on the throne, the French filibuster incursion prompted Spanish forces to march from San Antonio to expel them. The incident also helped bring about the Adams-Onís Treaty (1821) that did away with the so-called Neutral Ground between United States and Spanish territory that was left in dispute after the Louisiana Purchase and designated the Sabine River as the western border with Texas.Category
French Texas
Becoming Texas, Bullock Museum