USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The missions flourished between 1745 and the 1780s. Increasing hostility from the mission Indians’ traditional enemy, the Apache, and later the Comanche, coupled with inadequate military support, caused the communities to retreat behind walls. Disease reduced the native population, accelerating the missions’ decline.

Detailed explanation-2: -San Antonio Missions Features found along the route that were associated with life at the Missions include dams, acequias and other irrigation resources, agricultural fields or labores, and the aqueduct at Mission Espada.

Detailed explanation-3: -The San Sabá Mission was intended specifically for the Lipan Apache Indians, who had asked that a mission be established in their area of Texas. Historians believe that the Lipan were really interested in getting the protection that a Spanish presence would provide.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Apache blamed the Spanish for not protecting them and gradually resumed raids on the settlements along the San Antonio River. These later raids by the Apache had a devastating effect on the missions. It became unsafe to venture outside the missions as the possibility of death or captivity were ever present.