1. Chapter 6: The Spanish Missions Section 4: War and Expansion

2. Essential Question
How did the Apaches respond to the Mission system?

3. 1719: War breaks out between France and Spain
The Aguayo Expedition
1719: War breaks out between France and Spain

4. The Aguayo Expedition
French soldiers from Natchitoches attack the Spanish mission, San Miguel de Linares de los Adaes
Two Spaniards at the mission surrendered

5. The Aguayo Expedition
French gathered up supplies and raided the hen house
One Spaniard escaped to a nearby mission

6. The Aguayo Expedition Said French soldiers were marching on East Texas
Event will become known as the “Chicken War”

7. The Aguayo Expedition
The Spanish temporarily abandoned East Texas following the Chicken War.

8. The Aguayo Expedition
Viceroy ordered the Marques de San Miguel de Aguyayo, the governor of Coahuila, to reoccupy the missions
1721: The Spanish arrive and reoccupy the missions

9. The Aguayo Expedition
Aguayo meets with the French commander in the area, Louis Juchereau de St. Denis.
The two agree to separate control of French Louisiana and Spanish Texas

10. Expansion of settlement
The Aguayo Expedition
Expansion of settlement
Los Adaes (capital of Spanish Texas)
La Bahia—mission & presidio built by Aguayo near Matagorda Bay

11. Presidio La Bahia

14. Nuestra Senora del Espiritu Santo de Zuniga Mission

18. France and Spain at War Chicken War (June 1719) Spain abandons Texas
Aguayo Expedition
Agreement to separate control of French Louisiana and Spanish Texas
Spanish re-occupy East Texas
Expansion of Settlement

19. Clashes on the Frontier
American Indians attacked Spanish settlements during the 1730s and 1740s
Spanish feared the Apache

20. Clashes on the Frontier
Central Texas and San Antonio missions hit hard by raids
Believed converting the Indians to Catholicism would bring more peaceful relations

21. Clashes on the Frontier
The Franciscans begin setting up three missions along the San Gabriel River.

22. Clashes on the Frontier
The Spaniards move the San Xavier missions and presidio to Santa Cruz de San Saba after a smallpox epidemic kills many of the mission Indians.

23. Clashes on the Frontier
Spanish had little success converting the Indians
About 2,000 American Indian enemies of the Apache attack and burn the Santa Cruz de San Sabá mission.

24. Clashes on the Frontier
Mission never rebuilt
Comanche and Apache will continue to resist the Spanish
San Antonio and Rio Grande missions only successful settlements in Texas