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| | The Six National Flags of Texas |
 | | But the effort was doomed by a series of calamities: shipwreck, disease, famine, hostile Indians, and internal strife resulting in La Salle's murder by one of his own company. |
 | | A few shipwrecked Spaniards, like Alvar Nunez, Cabeza de Vaca, and explorers such as Coronado, occasionally probed the vast wilderness, but more than 100 years passed before Spain planted its first settlement in Texas: Ysleta Mission in present El Paso, established in 1681. |
 | | French nobleman Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, founded a colony called Fort St. Louis. |
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