things I learned on the mission trail
During the annual San Antonio Mission Trail run that the family has to accompany me on, I was able to rectify several misconceptions on my part and get a better understanding of some of the underlying settlement dynamics.
For starters, I had always mistakenly assumed that the push of the missions actually came from Jacksonville, Florida, and ran westward to New Mexico. In reality, all of these missions were set up from the South, specifically, from Mexico City in Mexico.
Furthermore, the underlying political gambit was the question of which part of the North American continent La Salle had successfully claimed for the French crown, and how much the Texan missions could contribute to rebutt the claims of La Salle, who had set up his original fort Saint Louis in the vicinity of Victoria, TX.
In addition, I had been ignorant of the massacre at San Saba, where the Spanish were attempting to set up a Franciscan mission for the Apaches that the Comanches felt threatened enough by to raise a 2,000 men strong expeditionary force to eliminate.
I did learn other things, but these were the only ones that I bought books at the gift shop about.
For starters, I had always mistakenly assumed that the push of the missions actually came from Jacksonville, Florida, and ran westward to New Mexico. In reality, all of these missions were set up from the South, specifically, from Mexico City in Mexico.
Furthermore, the underlying political gambit was the question of which part of the North American continent La Salle had successfully claimed for the French crown, and how much the Texan missions could contribute to rebutt the claims of La Salle, who had set up his original fort Saint Louis in the vicinity of Victoria, TX.
In addition, I had been ignorant of the massacre at San Saba, where the Spanish were attempting to set up a Franciscan mission for the Apaches that the Comanches felt threatened enough by to raise a 2,000 men strong expeditionary force to eliminate.
I did learn other things, but these were the only ones that I bought books at the gift shop about.