San Antonio Missions

After 10,000 years, people in South Texas discovered their culture and their lives were attacked. In the beginning of the eighteenth century, Apache suffered from a deadly disease from northern Mexico, and the drought could not go. Survive in the mission. By entering evangelism, they predict that their traditional life becomes Spanish, accepting new religions, promising loyalty to the distant and invisible kings.

Along the historic route of the San Antonio River, five major Spanish missions of the 18th century, such as Mission Espada, Mission Concepcion, Mission San Jose and Mission San Juan Capistrano are lining up. The most famous mission is San Antonio Devalero, the more famous Alamo, and its complementary fortress is Presidio San Antonio De Bequisar. These three missions of San Antonio are now designated UNESCO World Heritage. PresidioLaBahía and its mission is at Mission Nuestra Señoradel Espíritu Santode Zúñiga in Goliad, Texas, also in the south of the river.

Alamo's mission in San Antonio (Spanish: MisióndeÁlamo), often called Alamo, was originally called Misión San Antonio de Valero. Originally built in the 18th century, it is a complex of mission and fortifications of Roman Catholicism, part of San Antonio World Heritage Sites in San Antonio, Texas. It was the place of the battle of Alamo in 1836 and became a museum of the historical district of Alamo Square. This compound is one of Spain's early missions in Texas and was created to educate the American Indians after they became a Christian. The mission was secularized in 1793 and then abandoned. Ten years later, it became a fortress of the second flight company of the San Carlos de Palas army, and he may name his mission Alamo. During the Texas Revolution, Mexican general Martin Perfect de Kos surrendered to the Texaco army after the siege of Becker in December 1835.