USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Desperate, Hidalgo wrote a letter to the French governor in Louisiana, asking the French to build a mission among the Tejas. The letter was sent in secret, without the Spanish officials’ permission.

Detailed explanation-2: -Among them was the Franciscan Father Francisco Hidalgo (ee-dahl-goh). Years before, he had served at San Francisco de los Tejas. After it was abandoned, Father Hidalgo helped found the San Juan Bautista mission along the Rio Grande, but he was not content there.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1690, De León and Massanet founded the San Francisco de los Tejas Mission. The following year they began an offshoot, Santísimo Nombre de Maria, a few miles away.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of San Juan Bautista’s missionaries was Father Francisco Hidalgo (ee DAHL go), a friar who had known the Tejas people of San Francisco de los Tejas. For over ten years he had asked Spanish officials to rebuild the mission for the Tejas.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two individuals, one a Spanish missionary priest, Father Francisco Hidalgo, and the other a French explorer and trader, Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, have been credited as the principal figures who engineered the return of the Spanish to eastern Texas.