An interesting and not well known episode in early American History. Brought to you by Doorus the Walrus and that other guy he keeps locked in the editing room.
Robert Talon 14 years old at the time, and three of his younger siblings, ( one boy and two young girls ) were captured by the karankawa after all of the adults at the fort were killed by them. Six months later De Leon and his expedition who were looking for the LaSalle fort obtained the children's release from the Karankawa by threat and barter and returned with them to the town of Cadereyta in northern Mexico. The children were later returned to France to be reunited with their next of kin.
LaSalle's illfated mistake of landing in the wrong place ended up costing almost everyone's life. The two adult Frenchmen blamed for LaSalle's murder eventualy sailed up the Mississippi River to Canada and were never heard from again. A settlement by the Spanish was later established near Garcitas Creek, near the present site of Goliad as a precaution against a second incursion by the French into the territory.
