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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MATAMOROS , a See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

PORT

port of the See also:

state of See also:

TAMAULIPAS

Tamaulipas, See also:

Mexico, on the S. See also:

BANK

bank of the Rio Grande, 28 m. from its mouth, opposite See also:

BROWNSVILLE

Brownsville, See also:

TEXAS

Texas. Pop. (1900), 8347. Matamoros stands in an open See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain, the commercial centre for a large See also:

DISTRICT

district, but its import See also:

trade is prejudiced by the See also:

bar at the mouth of the Rio Grande, which permits the entrance of small vessels only. The exports include hides, See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool and live stock. The importance of the town in the See also:

FOREIGN

foreign trade of See also:

NORTHERN

northern Mexico, however, has been largely diminished by the See also:

GREAT

great See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. Formerly it was the centre of a large contra-See also:

BAND

band trade with Brownsville, Texas. Matamoros was founded See also:

early in the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and was named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of the Mexican patriot Mariano Matamoros (c. 1770-1814). In the See also:

war between the See also:

UNITED

United States and Mexico, Matamoros was easily taken by the Americans on the 18th of May 1846, following See also:

General Zachary See also:

Taylor's victories at Palo See also:

ALTO (Ital. for " high ")

Alto and Resaca de la See also:

Palma. Matamoros was occupied by the Mexican imperialists under Mejia in 1864, and by the See also:

French in 1866.

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