At the end of the British mandate on Palestine which gave Israel its legitimacy, Israel was declared an independent state in May 15th, 1948. Answer Israel was established by G-d.
A decade later in the Spring of 1858, they briefly saw combat again when they were sent north to the Red River to settle a band of Comanche Indians. After Texas seceded from the United States during the Civil War in 1861, an organization was created in Houston, called Terry's Texas Rangers.
Frontier Battalion Organized, 1874. Click on image for larger image and transcript. In 1874, Governor Richard Coke and the Texas Legislature responded to the situation on the frontier by providing for a Texas force to augment the U.S. Army. The Frontier Battalion was composed of six companies of Texas Rangers. Coke received numerous letters from constituents offering to raise companies to fight the Indians. Records of Richard Coke, Texas Office of the Governor, August 8, 1874.