The Beginnings of Texas, 1684-1718University of Texas, 1907 - 94 pàgines |
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Alarcón arrival Asinais August 22 bay of Espíritu Bonilla Cadillac Cadodachos Captain León Captain Ramón Carta cattle City of Mexico coast Colección de Memorias colony commerce Declaración Derbanne Derrotero Descripción y diario Dictamen Fiscal enterprise entrada Espinosa Espíritu Santo bay established expedition exploration Father Massanet Francisco de Jesus French Frenchmen friars Galve Governor Terán Guadalupe Hidalgo Hist horses Ibid instructions Journal Historique journey junta de guerra Kingdom of León lands leagues letter Linares Louisiana Manzanet Margil Margry Martinez merchandise mission San Francisco missionary missions and presidios Mississippi Mobile Nachitoches northern provinces Nueva Vizcaya Nuevo León Olivares padres Pénicaut Pierre Pierre Talon Pratz presidio priests province of Texas Provincias Internas Quar Red River Rio Grande Saint-Denis Salle Salle's San Antonio river savages says sent settlement soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish territory supplies Talon Tejas Indians tion trade tribes Velasco viceroy village vuelta
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Pàgina 10 - ... torn and scattered, but bearing still the evidences of costly bindings; and broken cutlasses, and the stocks of many arquebuses with locks and barrels gone. On the prairie near by lay three dead bodies, one of which, from the fragment of a dress that still clung to it, appeared to be that of a woman.' The village consisted of five or six small houses of palisades, plastered over with mud, and covered with the skins of buffaloes; a larger house where apparently animals were kept; and a wooden...
Pàgina 11 - ... over with mud, and covered with the skins of buffaloes; a larger house where apparently animals were kept; and a wooden fort, made from the timbers of a wrecked vessel. The fort had four lower rooms, one of which had served as a chapel; and above these rooms was an upper story which had been used for a storeroom. Scattered about the fort were several swivels and eight small guns of four or six pounds, some upon the floor and some upon their broken carriages. Upon the casing of the principal door...
Pàgina 31 - ... in the dates of the official documents relating to Texas is significant, as showing how little during that time (1693-1714) these northern lands were in the thoughts and plans of the governors of Mexico. The fear of a French intrusion into Spanish territory, which in the years 1689, 1690, and 1691 had been strong enough to induce the viceroy to send a company of priests and soldiers exploring far into the interior of Texas, grew less and less as the years passed, and no further attempt was made...
Pàgina 47 - Bay; and in order that they might better control the Indians and repel the advance of the French, the garrisons of the several missions were increased to an effective force. This time there was to be no retreat.
Pàgina 31 - Terán's company. A small guard was left to protect the friars, but it was altogether inadequate; and what little assistance the few soldiers might have rendered in preserving the missions from injury was precluded by their lack of discipline and self-restraint. So great, Indeed, were the difficulties and discouragements that six of the friars who had come out with Terán's expedition refused to remain, and others, it seems, remained unwillingly.
Pàgina 29 - Thus the breach between the two leaders of the expedition was widened. The missionary plan seems to have been abandoned entirely; and the missions already established were not in a flourishing condition. The friendliness of the Tejas was not unmixed with duplicity; while professing good will in order to secure the presents which the Spaniards frequently made them, they were constantly pilfering from the missions and stealing and killing...
Pàgina 5 - ... called Bay St. Louis; the loss by criminal carelessness of the storeship Aimable with the provisions, arms, and supplies that were on her; the departure of Beaujeu with those of the expedition who had become discouraged or dissatisfied; the settlement of the colony a few miles inland on the...
Pàgina 31 - Montaiia, and Texas was left for twenty years to the undisturbed possession of the Indian tribes, to wait until another and more serious menace to their authority in the lands east of the Rio Grande should stimulate the rulers of New Spain to a saner and more determined effort to make good their title to that vast region by the fact of actual occupation. The question may well be raised here, by way of conclusion, whether these several unsuccessful efforts to establish missions among the Tejas and...
Pàgina 34 - ... instructions what to do with them, he accorded them the most courteous treatment while they were awaiting the return of the messenger who had been sent to the viceroy.2 Saint-Denis, Penicaut, Jalot, and the surgeon he entertained in his own house, and provided quarters for the others.3 February 15th, SaintDenis dispatched some of his men secretly to the governor of Louisiana, to inform him of what had happened since their arrival upon the Rio Grande. He writes that, while he might escape by stealth,...