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"Born a pawn in the quarreling's of Spain and Frnace for dominion, San Antonio had a troubled youth, Geographically isolated from the mainstream of whatever nation or empire had guardianship, and the site of now fewer that six bloody battles for its custody, San Antonio's mixed parentage gives those who would describe the place a hard time." San Antonio is too far west to be characteristically southern and too far east to be completely southwestern,...
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The Alamo Mission Bell was cast in 1722 for the Mission San Antonio de Valero, known as the Alamo, where it hung for many years. From there, as the story goes, it was being taken to the mission at Refugio when the cart in which it was being hauled broke down, and the bell was left beside the road near the San Antonio River.
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San Antonio 365: On This Day in History tells one story a day in the history of the Alamo City, from popular lore to lesser known events critical to understanding its people and culture. The result is a treasure trove of remarkable tales highlighting small ripples that created big waves in the region's history. The stories in San Antonio 365 are fun and enlightening slices of history, but they also highlight our collective need to learn from the past....
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San Antonio, City for a King takes us on an extraordinary adventure through an amazingly unknown, yet expectantly fitting, piece of Texas' origins. We learn how 16 families from Iberia's Canary Islands answered their monarch's call to populate a desolate northeast area of his New Spain for a strategic political reason. There was the year-long journey: crossing the Atlantic and then trekking north over present-day Mexico to Bejar. We see how these...
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