USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Massanet spent several years building missions in Mexico. Then, in 1690, he accompanied General Alonso De León, governor of the state of Coahuila, to establish a Spanish presence in Texas. In that year, Mission San Francisco de los Tejas was founded near the Neches River.

Detailed explanation-2: -1690 – Father Damian Massanet set up the first mission in East Texas called San Francisco de los Tejas. Father Francisco Hidalgo builds San Juan Bautista. Jose de Escandon founded Laredo and 20 other settlements near the Rio Grande.

Detailed explanation-3: -Massanet accompanied De León on another expedition to East Texas in 1690. In May of that year Massanet founded the Spanish mission San Francisco de los Tejas, near what is now Augusta, Texas, in order to convert local Indians of the Hasinai (Tejas) confederacy to Christianity.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1690, one year after Father Massenet set fire to La Salle’s doomed Fort St. Louis settlement, he blessed the timber church of San Francisco de los Tejas – the first Spanish mission in east Texas, near present-day Augusta.

Detailed explanation-5: -Establishing a mission French colonists settled on the Texas coast in 1685. In response, the Spaniards built Mission San Francisco de los Tejas in a village of Caddo Indians in 1690.