. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. en from the aggressions of Cortinas invasion 1859 28 Battle of Concepcion between Fannins force of 90 Texans and the Mexican troops fromSan Antonio, under Cos. The latter are driven back to the city. is killed, the first in this campaign 1835 29 First Convent foot-bridge is built by .subscription ; it is afterwards washed away 1868 Cardinal Gibbons is here, and next day he officiates at San Fernando Cathedral 1887 30 General Cos is fortifying San .Antonio 1835 One thousand Texans under Austin at Mission Concepcion. (Many of them disper
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. en from the aggressions of Cortinas invasion 1859 28 Battle of Concepcion between Fannins force of 90 Texans and the Mexican troops fromSan Antonio, under Cos. The latter are driven back to the city. is killed, the first in this campaign 1835 29 First Convent foot-bridge is built by .subscription ; it is afterwards washed away 1868 Cardinal Gibbons is here, and next day he officiates at San Fernando Cathedral 1887 30 General Cos is fortifying San .Antonio 1835 One thousand Texans under Austin at Mission Concepcion. (Many of them disperseshortly afterwards to escape the severity of the weather. Having been hastilysummoned, they came unprepared to winter. 1835 31 Tlie bell of St. Marks arrives from Troy, .N. Y. It was cast from an old cannon dug up in the .Alamo, and was cast at the expense of S. A. Maverick 1874 [Mem .—The revolutionary ideas of the Texan party had arisen by the refusal of Santa .Anna to separate Texas from Coahuila.] 1834 TH1-: MONTH OI NOVKMBER. ICl. NOVEMBER. The United States Arsenal is bei^in to be built on its present site . . 1859 Antonio Manchaca, a prominent Mexican-Texan veteran and citizen, born ISOd, dies this day , 1879 Mr. Herman Kanijmiann takes the Menger Hotel in hand 1887 Iirst match game of base ball played in this city 1867 The Belknap Rifles receive their charter 1884 The first survey of the San Antonio and Iass Railroad is completed 1884 The city is first lighted with gas 1866 The Edison Phonograph makes its first appearance here at the Alamo Literary Hall 1878 Floresville and San Antonio are connected by wire : first message on the /)th 1886 Corner stone of German Catholic Church of St. Joseph laid with great ceremony . . 1868The new building of the San .tonio National Bank, on Commerce street, is occupied 1886 6 San .Antonio National Bank is organizedThe second International Fair is opened 18661889 Magee is at (loliad with the Republicans : the Royalists are
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