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River, eastern Texas and western Louisiana, U.S.

Rising in northeastern Texas, it flows southeast and south, broadens near its mouth to form Sabine Lake, and continues from Port Arthur, Texas, through Sabine Pass to enter the Gulf of Mexico after a course of 578 mi (930 km). The river forms the southern section of the Texas-Louisiana boundary and is a link in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

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Sabine - Any member of an ancient Italic tribe located east of the Tiber River.
Texas - State (pop., 2000: 20,851,820), southwestern U.S.
Beaumont - City (pop., 2000: 113,866), southeastern Texas, U.S.
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway - System of inland waterways, including rivers and canals, along the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Sabine River - river in the southwestern United States, rising in northeastern Texas and flowing southeast and south, broadening near its mouth to form Sabine Lake, and continuing from Port Arthur through Sabine Pass, a dredged navigable channel, to the Gulf of Mexico after a course of 578 mi (930 km). It drains 10,400 sq mi (26,950 sq km), entirely in Texas and the Louisiana Coastal Plain. The Sabine has ...
Sabine - member of an ancient Italic tribe located in the mountainous country east of the Tiber River. They were known for their religious practices and beliefs, and several Roman institutions were said to have derived from them. The story recounted by Plutarch that Romulus, the founder of Rome, invited the Sabines to a feast and then carried off (raped) their women, is legendary. Though there was a ...
Red River Campaign - (March 10-May 22, 1864), in the American Civil War, unsuccessful Union effort to seize control of the important cotton-growing states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. In the spring of 1864, Union General Nathaniel Banks led an expedition up the Red River and, with the support of a river fleet commanded by Admiral David Dixon Porter, took Fort DeRussy and the town of Alexandria, La. However, ...
Greenville - city, seat (1846) of Hunt county, northeastern Texas, U.S., on the Sabine River, 52 miles (84 km) northeast of Dallas. McQuinney Howell Wright donated the land for the site of the new county seat. Established in 1846 on the Republic of Texas's National Road-an ox-wagon trail from Jefferson to Austin-and named for General Thomas J. Green (who fought in the Texas Revolution), Greenville began to ...
Louisiana - Louisiana's waterways have always been an important means of transportation. The state's 4,800-7,500 miles (7,680-12,000 kilometres) of navigable waterways include the Intracoastal Waterway. It is Louisiana's only east-west waterway and canal system and runs some 310 miles from Mississippi Sound to the Sabine River. It is part of a larger waterway extending from the Caloosahatchee River in ...
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