Historic Site
Presidio La Bahia
Established by the Spanish in 1749 – to deter the French, then sniffing around the northeastern edges of their empire – Presidio La Bahia played a role in six revolutions and wars, and served under nine different flags (including the bloody-arm Goliad flag, an early symbol of independent Texas). Texas revolutionaries seized the fort – now faithfully restored – in October 1835, and renamed it 'Fort Defiance' during their occupation.