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- Though several Spanish expeditions charted the Gulf Coast, it was explorer José Antonio de Evia who in 1785 gave the bay and the island the name Gálvezton in honor of Spanish viceroy Bernardo de Gálvez. [ 13]
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Louis Aury established a naval base at the harbor in 1816 to support the Mexican War of Independence. When he abandoned the base, it was then taken over by pirate Jean Lafitte, who temporarily transformed Galveston Island and the bay into a haven for outlaws before being ousted by the United States Navy. [ 13] .
The bay was named in July 1785 by José de Evía, a Spanish pilot, who surveyed the Gulf Coast by order of Bernardo de Gálvez, governor of Louisiana (and later viceroy of Mexico). The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Erik Gregersen. Geography & Travel Physical Geography of Water. Gulf of Mexico
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The Galveston Bay of today looks radically different than it did when it first formed 5,000 years ago. As the last Ice Age came to an end over 18,000 years ago, the Earth warmed, the Pleistocene mammals that roamed the area became extinct, ice sheets withdrew, sea levels rose, and the shoreline moved to near-present locations.
Coordinates: 29°29′59″N 95°05′23″W. A simulated-color image of the Bay Area, courtesy of NASA. For a period of over 7000 years, humans have inhabited the Galveston Bay Area in what is now the United States. Through their history the communities in the region have been influenced by the once competing sister cities of Houston and ...
what Galveston Bay is and of its importance today. But how did it get here? What were the geologic, cultural, societal, political, and economic factors that put it where it is today? The following paragraphs attempt to summarize 18,000 years of the history of Galveston Bay by consolidating the work of noted histori-
Galveston was founded in 1836 by Michel Menard, Samuel May Williams, and Thomas F. McKinney, and briefly served as the capital of the Republic of Texas. The Battle of Galveston was fought in Galveston Bay during the American Civil War when Confederate forces under Major General John B. Magruder attacked and expelled occupying Union troops from ...
Galveston got its name from the Spanish Colonial governor, Bernardo de Galvez, who ordered the first survey of the Texas Gulf Coast in 1786. Oddly, de Galvez never stepped foot on the island; it was the surveyor, Jose de Evia, who named Galveston Bay in his honor, which later led to the name of the island.
