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The mission's history spans the time of the region’s occupancy by Spain, Mexico, and the United States, was founded by refugees from the Pueblo Revolt of 1690.
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The Franciscans and the Tigua (Tiwa) Indians who founded the mission were fleeing from the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico, where Indians had risen up against the harsh and inflexible Spanish rule.
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San Francisco de los Tejas was the first mission built in the Spanish state of Texas.
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In 1835 Mission Concepción was the site of the Battle of Concepción, in which Texas revolutionaries under James Bowie defeated Mexican troops; some of the buildings were apparently damaged during the fight.
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The name Alamo may have originated with a company of soldiers from the village of “Alamo” (La Compañía de Alamo de Parras), who were stationed at the mission in the early 1800s.
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Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo was named for Saint Joseph (San José) and the Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo, the governor of the Province of Coahuila and Texas at the time.
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The mission and a presidio were established in 1722 on Matagorda Bay near La Salle’s Fort Saint Louis on Garcitas Creek, to secure the Texas coastline from the French and to convert the local Cocos, Copanes, and Cujanes Indians.
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San Francisco de los Tejas was the first mission built in the Spanish state of Texas.
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The mission was originally founded in east Texas, near the current city of Cushing, as Mission San José de los Nazonis.
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The mission was established, 4 miles west of La Bahia, in November 1754 by Father Juan de Dios Camberos to minister to the Karankawan tribes.
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