Bernardo de Gálvez

France in 1803…… effect is Doubled the size of the US. and it pushed the border of US to the sabine river. that conflict ended, the pirate moved his base to Galveston Island, claiming to support Mexican independence.

Hoping to recover from bankruptcy with a bold scheme of colonization, Moses Austin meets with Spanish authorities in San Antonio to ask permission for 300 Anglo-American families to settle in Texas.

1690: Father Damian Massanet established a mission at San Francisco de los Tejas. This mission is so significant because it was the first Spanish establishment in Teas and Damian Massanet became the first to start a Spanish mission in east Texas.

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A Franciscan Priest who brought Spanish settlers to Texas in the 1600s and founded the first Spanish Mission in East Texas.

4. What was Father Damián Massanet’s reason for wanting to meet with the Hasinai? A. To make a peace treaty.

Francisco Hidalgo, a Spanish priest of the Franciscan order of Roman Catholicism, was a missionary to the American Indians in what are now northern Mexico and East Texas. His efforts helped lead to the long Spanish occupation of Texas. Hidalgo was born in Spain, probably in 1659.

2. The Plains tribes resented the missionaries and their intrusion on their hunting grounds. 3. The missions were isolated and often lacked the supplies and people to survive.

After ordination he joined twenty-three of his brethren, who crossed the Atlantic in 1683 to help found the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro. At that time, Hidalgo was a twenty-four-year-old priest. Thereafter, he became a determined advocate of renewed missionary efforts among the Caddo Indians.

1710. Franciscan missionary Father Francisco Hidalgo writes a letter to the French Governor of Louisiana from his post at San Juan Bautista offering to introduce the French governor to Spanish merchants in exchange for the French supporting his unfinished missionary work in east Texas.

Spain learned of La Salle’s mission in 1686. Concerned that the French colony could threaten Spain’s control over New Spain and the southern part of North America, the Crown funded multiple expeditions to locate and eliminate the settlement. Years later, Spanish authorities built a presidio at the same location.

Following the Louisiana Purchase, Spain began to reinforce Texas in order to protect its Mexican colony from its new neighbor, the United States. The Mexican War of Independence, which began in 1810, weakened Spanish control in Texas, which saw major battles fought between royalists and insurgents.

What contributed to the failure of the San Francisco de los Tejas missiom? disease, drought and Tejas rejection to the Catholic religion.

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Ysleta Mission

In 1731 Father Pedro Muñoz of the College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro made a contract with the Pacaos Indians stating that they would be the owners of San Francisco de la Espada Mission, one of the early Spanish missions on the San Antonio River. The aqueduct, friary, and sacristy were completed in 1745.

Mission Espada

The Order of Friars Minor, known as the Franciscans, was founded by St. Francis of Assisi in the 13th century. It was the Franciscans who were given responsibility for all the Texas missions.