Approximately south of Orange, Texas, it meets the Neches River from the west to form the and Sabine Lake, which drains through Sabine Pass to the Gulf of Mexico.

During the American Civil War, on September 8, 1863, a small Confederate force thwarted a Union invasion of Texas at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, fought at the mouth of the river.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass – on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.

There is a common thread throughout Civil War anecdotes that refer to a game played 30 years earlier in the Sabine Pass area.

The county is bounded on the north by Pine Island Bayou, on the northeast by the Neches River, and on the east by Sabine Lake and the mouth of the Sabine River, a natural outlet called Sabine Pass.

J. P. Richardson was born in Sabine Pass, Texas, the oldest son of Jiles Perry Richardson, Sr., an oil field worker, and his wife Elise ( Stalsby ) Richardson.

Its guns, munitions, and stores were moved to the then-unfinished Fort Griffin, the site of the famous Second Battle of Sabine Pass, often credited as the most one-sided Confederate victory of the American Civil War.

Read was promoted to lieutenant commander on 16 July 1862, and on 18 April 1863, he led a boat expedition which landed near the lighthouse at Sabine Pass.

A major oil spill occurred around Texas City, and an ocean-going tugboat capsized off the Sabine Pass coast.

Through its tidal outlet long, Sabine Pass, Sabine Lake drains some of Texas and Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico.

Wide natural beach near Sabine Pass

USGS map of Sabine Pass

Sabine Pass is the natural outlet of Sabine Lake into the Gulf of Mexico.

Two major battles occurred here during the American Civil War, known as the First and Second Battles of Sabine Pass.

Hurricane Rita made landfall on September 24, 2005 and on September 12 – 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike struck Sabine Pass and Galveston, generating the highest surge of 22 feet which is, according to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 ( NAVD 88 ), the highest ever recorded at Sabine Pass.

Clodius is an alternate form of the Roman nomen Claudius, a patrician gens that was traditionally regarded as Sabine in origin.

The alternation of o and au is characteristic of the Sabine dialect.

Her function as bestower of authority to rule is also attested in the story related by Livy in which a Sabine man who sacrifices a heifer to Diana wins for his country the seat of the Roman empire.

The Sabine Women Enforcing Peace by Running between the Combatants, also called The Intervention of the Sabine Women is said to have been painted to honor his wife, with the theme being love prevailing over conflict.

* Griffin and Sabine by artist Nick Bantock is a love story written as a series of hand painted postcards and letters.

The symbol Au is from the, according to some sources meaning " shining dawn ", from Sabine ausum " glowing dawn " although according to definitions within Latin dictionaries the meaning of the word aurum extends only to the same as today's reference to the metal.

The Sabine River (; Alibamu: Sabìina, Sabìnka ) is a river, long, in the U. S. states of Texas and Louisiana.

It is impounded west of Leesville, Louisiana, to form the Toledo Bend Reservoir, with the Sabine National Forest along its western bank.

The idea is well explored in Sabine Baring-Gould's work The Book of Werewolves.

* 299 BC: The Samnites, seizing their chance when Rome is engaged on the Lombard plain, start the third Samnite War with a collection of mercenaries from Gaul and Sabine and Etruscan allies to help them

Orange County is the county in the very southeastern corner of Texas, with a boundary with Louisiana but does not have a seacoast on the Gulf of Mexico as Jefferson County and Sabine Lake border Orange County to the South.

Orange County is bordered on its east by the Sabine River-the border with Louisiana, on its southeast by Sabine Lake, on its west by Jefferson County-its parent county, and on its north by three different counties of Texas.

* 1852 — Edward Sabine shows that sunspot number is correlated with geomagnetic field variations

* The novel Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan describes the founding and first decades of Rome from the points of view of one of Romulus's Latin followers, a Sabine who settles in Rome as part of the peace agreement with Tatius, an Etruscan fugitive who is accepted into the tribe of Luceres after his own city is destroyed, and a Greek seeking purification from blood-guilt who comes to the city in the last years of Romulus ' reign.

* The Samnites, seizing their chance when Rome is engaged on the Lombard plain, start the third Samnite War with a collection of mercenaries from Gaul, Sabine, and Etruscan allies to help them.

He also reduces the Sabine insurgents to submission, their territory is annexed and they are granted civitas sine suffragio (" citizenship without the right to vote ").

The 1954 movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a classic film musical about seven lumberjack brothers who, in the spirit of the Roman story of the The Rape of the Sabine Women, decide to kidnap brides for themselves from the neighboring town.

The autonomy of Semo Sancus from Jupiter and the fact that Dius Fidius is an alternate theonym designating Semo Sancus ( and not Jupiter ) is shown by the name of the correspondent Umbrian god Fisus Sancius which compounds the two constituent parts of Sancus and Dius Fidius: in Umbrian and Sabine Fisus is the exact correspont of Fidius, as e. g. Sabine Clausus of Latin Claudius.

Later Tullus Hostilius ( r. 673 – 642 BC ) enclosed the Comitium around the old Etruscan temple where the senate would meet at the site of the Sabine conflict.

* ToledoBendLakeCountry. com -- Official site of the Toledo Bend ( Sabine Parish ) Tourist Commission

* ToledoBendLakeCountry. com -- Official site of the Toledo Bend ( Sabine Parish ) Tourist Commission

* ToledoBendLakeCountry. com -- Official site of the Toledo Bend ( Sabine Parish ) Tourist Commission

* ToledoBendLakeCountry. com -- Official site of the Toledo Bend ( Sabine Parish ) Tourist Commission

The 30 km-diameter Sabine Crater, in the southern Mare Tranquillitatis region, lies directly adjacent to the landing site of the first manned mission to Luna by the crew of Apollo XI in July 1969.

From the dam site, which is north of Burkeville, TX, the reservoir extends up the river for about to Logansport, LA, and inundates land in Sabine, Shelby, Panola and Newton Counties, Texas, and Sabine and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana.

* ToledoBendLakeCountry. com -- Official site of the Toledo Bend ( Sabine Parish ) Tourist Commission

A community called Fontana was established on the site about 1890, and the Paris, Marshall and Sabine Railroad was built through the area the following year.

The dig, one of whose members was the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, reconstructed some of the site, a move criticised by some of the Committee at the time, and also by later researchers including R. Hansford Worth.

The location of the spring is unknown: speculation has centered on Apulia, the poet's birthplace, and the neighborhood of an archaeological ruin east of Rome, thought to be the site of poet's beloved Sabine farm in what is now the commune of Licenza.

Commissioners were initially concerned that the water in the area would not be good, the reason from moving the county seat from site on the Sabine River like Pulaski was that they had poor water and were prone to disease and flooding.