FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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East Texas Mission that failed as the Natives rejected the Catholic religion due to death and illness.
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Most successful West Texas Mission.
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Successful San Antonio Mission.
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was built in 1718.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Leaving Father Damian Massanet in charge, De León departed on July 4., Three years later, however, the mission was empty. Lack of sufficient defense, the isolated location, epidemics, and the insincerity of the Indians (who took the Spaniards’ gifts but not their religion) contributed to its failure.
Detailed explanation-2: -Establishing a mission In response, the Spaniards built Mission San Francisco de los Tejas in a village of Caddo Indians in 1690. It was the first mission in the province of Texas. The Caddo blamed a smallpox epidemic that winter on the Spaniards and plotted to overthrow them.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1693, Santísimo Nombre de María mission had been washed away by Neches River flood waters and Father Massenet himself had burned San Francisco de los Tejas to the ground. The Spanish abandoned their efforts to establish missions in east Texas. Weary and discouraged, Franciscan friars walked home to Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -What contributed to the failure of the San Francisco de los Tejas missiom? disease, drought and Tejas rejection to the Catholic religion. The mission in San Juan Bautista was near the ? Spanish officials decided to reoccupy East Texas in order to?