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José de Escandón
José de Escandón was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator commissioned by the viceroy of New Spain in 1746 to colonise the Gulf coast north of Tampico. From 1748 he founded more than twenty towns and missions between the Pánuco and Nueces rivers, creating the province of Nuevo Santander, the later Mexican state of Tamaulipas and southern Texas.
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