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CORPUS CHRISTI , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Nueces county, See also:Texas, U.S.A., situated on Corpus Christi See also:Bay opposite the mouth of the Nueces See also:river, 192 M. W.S.W. of See also:Galveston and about 150 M. S.S.E. of See also:San See also:Antonio. Pop. (189o) 4387; (1900) 4703, including 963 See also:foreign-See also:born and 46o negroes; (191o) 8299. It is served by the See also:National of See also:Mexico, the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:Brownsville & Mexico, and the San Antonio & Aransas Pass See also:railways. In 1908 the Federal See also:government began See also:work on a project to connect Corpus Christi See also:harbour with Aransas Pass by a channel 82 ft. deep at See also:low See also:water and 75 ft. wide at the bottom, following a natural depression between the two bays. Corpus Christi is a summer and See also:winter resort, with a very dry equable See also:climate (See also:average See also:annual mean, 70.2° F.) and See also:good bathing on the See also:horse-See also:shoe See also:beach of Corpus Christi Bay. The city has an extensive See also:coasting See also:trade, and exports See also:fruit, See also:early vegetables, See also:fish and oysters. There was a small See also:Spanish See also:settlement here at an early date, but no See also:American settlement was made until after the Mexican See also:War. Corpus Christi was the See also:base from which See also:General Zachary See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor made his forward See also:movement to the Rio Grande in 1846. It was chartered as a city in 1876.
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