Complex sentence: Champ d'Asile ("Field of Asylum") was a short-lived settlement founded in Texas in January 1818 by 20 French Bonapartist veterans of the Napoleonic Wars from the Vine and Olive Colony.
Split into simpler sentences: Champ d'Asile ("Field of Asylum") was a short-lived settlement started in Texas in 1818 by French veterans of the Napoleonic Wars. It was started in January 1818, by 20 Bonapartists from the Vine and Olive Colony.