. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. LD ESIADA MISSION Don Domingo de Tarran de los Reyes, who was the firstgovernor of Coahuila, came here in August, 1691. He wasthe next to follow after the relative of the seeker of the per-ennial fount. He is said to have changed the rame of the Mis-sion from San Fernando de Tejas to San Francisco de is also said to have explored the country eastward as faras the Red River, but he abandoned the Mission there in 1693. But it was old Don Jose Domingo de Ramon, a grandeeof Spain, the emissary of her king, who planted the first andthe permanent
. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. LD ESIADA MISSION Don Domingo de Tarran de los Reyes, who was the firstgovernor of Coahuila, came here in August, 1691. He wasthe next to follow after the relative of the seeker of the per-ennial fount. He is said to have changed the rame of the Mis-sion from San Fernando de Tejas to San Francisco de is also said to have explored the country eastward as faras the Red River, but he abandoned the Mission there in 1693. But it was old Don Jose Domingo de Ramon, a grandeeof Spain, the emissary of her king, who planted the first andthe permanent settlement here. He re-established the aban- 10 Combats andn Co quests of Immortal Heroes doned Mission, locating it at the head springs of the San called it the Mission de San Antonio de Valero. At the sametime he established the Presidio, or fort of San Antonio, declar-ing it his monarchs capital in this country. The dominionhe named the Province de Be jar, or Bexar. While the lastword was spelled Bexar, it was pronounced MISSION CONCEPCION PURISSIMA DE AUNO, TWO MILES BELOW SAN ANTONIO IN FRONT OFWHICH AMERICANS UNDER BOWIE DEFEATED A LARGE MEXICAN FORCE. Little thought they, when they stuck their spears and staffssupporting their standards into the earth, about the pearlyfounts of San Pedros pellucid springs, that they were avantcouriers of such a civilization as some centuries since hassucceeded them. With the august and austere Ramon rode a train ofConquestadores clad in mail. Their quest was gold and ad-venture. Cowled and frccked friars of the Franciscan houserode with Ramon. One w^hom the\ called the Hidalgo deMargil, was their leader* and most ])ious of their order.
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