Wiktionary
n. A dry river bed, a former channel of the Rio Grande, found in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 280
Land area (2000): 2.759212 sq. miles (7.146327 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.070833 sq. miles (0.183456 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.830045 sq. miles (7.329783 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64736
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 34.579116 N, 84.943989 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Resaca
Wikipedia
A resaca is a type of oxbow lake that can be found in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas. The resacas constitute former channels of the Rio Grande and are naturally cut off from the river, having no inlet or outlet.
Resaca may refer to:
- Resaca (channel), a geographical feature in the Rio Grande basin, Texas, United States
- Resaca, Georgia, a city in Gordon County, Georgia, United States
- Resaca, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Madison County, Ohio, United States
- Battle of Resaca, a battle of the American Civil War fought in Georgia in May 1864
- Battle of Resaca de la Palma, a battle of the Mexican–American War fought in Texas in 1846
- USS Resaca (1865), an American navy ship
- Resaca, Spanish for hangover
- Resaca (film) a film by Alberto Santana, earliest sound film in Cinema of Peru
Usage examples of "resaca".
Just before Presley could shove him into the rear seat of the patrol car, Resaca twisted away from him.
He wondered if he would be able to hit Resaca a couple more times before Quarles got in.
Behind them, in the other room, Resaca began to rattle the door of the cell.
A few of the old men on the benches grumbled about the county having to feed Billy Resaca, and old knotted hands gripped walking canes a little tighter.
When Deputy Presley went to the house to investigate, Resaca climbed out a window, made a break for it, and resisted arrest.
Billy Resaca collapsed down, dwindling like the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz when the water hit her: and then he was gone.
It was at Resaca, in Georgia, during the movement that resulted in the taking of Atlanta.
Johnston has held General Sherman at Rocky Face Ridge, with heavy losses on the Federal side, and then again at Resaca and Snake Creek Gap, when he tried to use his superior numbers to outflank us.
This was longer by a good deal than we had been at rest since we left Resaca in the Spring.
In May, 1846, the American forces under General Taylor, which had been dispatched to protect Texas from threatened assault, were attacked by the Mexican army, which at Palo Alto was badly defeated and at Resaca de la Palma driven back across the Rio Grande.
General Zachary Taylor, with a force much inferior to that of the enemy, defeated the Mexicans at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and drove them out of Texas.
At Resaca the American dragoons under Captain May charged straight upon a Mexican battery, killing the gunners and capturing the Mexican general La Vega just as he was about to apply a match to one of the pieces.
He stopped at Resaca in a strong position on a peninsula formed by the junction of two rivers fortified by rifle pits and earthworks.
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Tracy City, Resaca, Peach Creek and Atlanta were the most severe, though many others were as sanguinary.
Following an attack on Fort Texas, Taylor pursues the Mexicans and at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma on May 9 defeats a much larger force in the first concentrated action of the war with Mexico.