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	About San Antonio and Its History - SAICFF
		San Antonio was established at the head of the San Antonio River in Bexar County.
		San Antonio declared for Mexican independence in 1813; it was recaptured by Royalist forces after the battles of Alazàn Creek and Medina, and the population was decimated by purges.
		San Antonio was once again the largest city in the state in 1900, with a population of 53,321; it remained the largest city in 1910, with 96,614 inhabitants, and 1920, with 161,379.
	www.independentchristianfilms.com /location (1126 words)

	San Antonio, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Antonio is the second-most populous city in the state of Texas after Houston and seventh-most populated in the United States.
		San Antonio's weather is alternately dry or humid depending on prevailing winds, turning hot in the summer, mild to cool winters subject to descending northern cold fronts in the winter with cool nights, and comfortably warm and rainy in the spring and fall.
		In San Antonio, 48% of the population are Males, and 52% of the population are Females.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Antonio,_Texas (7539 words)

	Project Facts
		The San Antonio River Improvements Project is a $198.7 million investment by the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the San Antonio River Foundation in flood control, amenities, ecosystem restoration and recreational improvements to the San Antonio River.
		The City of San Antonio contribution is anticipated to be approximately $56.8 million over the life of the project, derived from the city’s capital improvements fund for amenities and recreation elements.
		The San Antonio River Foundation, a non-profit organization, is working with the private sector to initially raise $7.8 million to augment the public investment in the project and raise additional funding to support the implementation of a comprehensive public arts master plan compiled to complement the river improvements project.
	www.sanantonioriver.org /facts.html (837 words)

	Bexar County TX Estate Planning Lawyers: Glenrose Hills, Medina River, Calvares, Helotes, Leon, Medio
		San Antonio is the county seat of Bexar County since 1860.
		Bexar served as the capital of the province of Texas prior to statehood, though the area was predominantly Mexican at the beginning of the Texas Revolution.
		In San Antonio, it was responsible for the magnificent cattle drives that this area became known for.
	www.heardandsmith.com /bexar_county_tx.html (883 words)

	Home Page San Antonio Walking Tours King William, Downtown San Antonio Texas, Historical, Ghost and River Tours. San ...
		One of them was called the Siege of Bexar this was a door to door battle fought right here inwhat was called the village of San Antonio de Bexar it started Dec. 5th and ended Dec. 7th of 1835 this was also the first battle of the Alamo.
		By the early 1900's San Antonio because of its multi-cultural influences was considered to be one of the 4 most unique cities in the country.
		San Antonio is also considered to be one of the most haunted cities in America also.
	www.sanantoniowalkingtours.com (528 words)

	The Name "Béxar"
		Since the founding of Bexar in the early 1700's, San Antonio has grown to become the second largest city in Texas and the eighth largest city in the United States.
		This entire group of settlements on the San Antonio river was often referred to as San Antonio de Béxar and developed into the present city of San Antonio as well as to the municipality from which modern Bexar County has evolved.
		A charter incorporating the city of San Antonio was approved December 14, 1837 by the Congress of the Republic of Texas.
	bexargenealogy.com /name.html (442 words)

	San Antonio, Texas
		San Antonio remained the chief Spanish, then Mexican stronghold in Texas until the Texas Revolution.
		By mid-century, San Juan, with its rich farm and pasturelands, was a regional supplier of agricultural produce.
		The founders of San Francisco de los Tejas, after their retreat from East Texas, moved the mission to the San Antonio River and renamed it San Francisco de la Espada.
	www.geocities.com /fanyenchang/SanAntonio.html (1111 words)

	Historic Sites of the U.S.- Mexican War in Bexar County, Texas
		Spanish army barracks that stood in Military Plaza in San Antonio were probably used to house regular U.S. army troops under the command of General John E. Wool during the late summer of 1846.
		San Fernando Cathedral is perhaps best known as the building from which Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna flew the blood-red flag of "No Quarter" during the 1836 siege of the nearby Alamo.
		Mission San José, along with the Alamo and Mission Concepción, was sketched by Illinois volunteer Sgt. Edward Everett during the summer of 1846.
	www.dmwv.org /mexwar/mwsites/bexar.htm (1325 words)

	Bexar County, Texas American History and Genealogy Project: Texas Genealogy; Texas History
		On 20 December 1860, Bexar County was officially established, with San Antonio as the county seat.
		San Antonio continued to be a commercial and military center, but the rest of the county remained scantily settled and undeveloped.
		The San Antonio Arsenal was opened in 1858, and in 1878 the city deeded ninety acres to the federal government for what eventually became Fort Sam Houston.
	texas.i-found-it.net (1866 words)

	General San Antonio Information
		San Antonio, occupying 368.6 square miles, is the seat of Bexar County (pronounced "bear").
		San Antonio is in South Central Texas, approximately 140 miles northwest of the Gulf of Mexico and 150 miles northeast of the city of Laredo on the Mexican border.
		San Antonio has about a 50% chance of the sunshine during the winter months and more than a 70% chance during the summer months.
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	San Antonio de Bexar NSDAR Chapter
		The San Antonio de Bexar Chapter NSDAR selected its name at a meeting held on February 3rd, 1902 at the Woman's Club.
		San Antonio de Bexar was originally organized on July 4th, 1891, at the Menger Hotel with Mrs.
		San Antonio de Bexar Chapter is the oldest and largest chapter in San Antonio.
	www.texasdar.org /chapters/SAdeBexar (437 words)

	The Bexar Memoria 1832
		Although the Bexar Ayuntamiento expressed disapproval of the Consultations of 1832 and subsequently 1833 and the citizens of Bexar did not actively participate, on 6 Dec 1832 the Bexar ayuntamiento appointed a committee to draw up a document outlining the colonists complaints.
		On 19 Dec at a meeting of 49 Bexarenos, a petition was endorsed and signed by the seven Bexar residents above which was circulated to the Texas ayuntamientos and in all or part eventually addressed to the legislature of the State of Coahuila and Texas.
		Summary of the Bexar Remonstrance from Memoirs for the History of the Wars in Texas by General Vicente Filisola (Second in Command to Santa Anna).
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/bexar7.htm (3483 words)

	Fort Tours \| Bexar County Historical Markers
		Thence to Virginia in 1785 and to Missouri in San Antonio on December 23, 1820.
		Seguin was postmaster of San Antonio, 1823-35, and deputy for Texas in National Congrss of Mexico, 1823-24.
		One of a complex of missions, San Juan was devoted to the cultural and religious conversion of the Coahuiltecan-speaking Indians of south Texas.
	www.forttours.com /pages/hmbexar.asp (5797 words)

	History of San Antonio
		San Antonio was founded May 1, 1718, when a Spanish military expedition from Mexico established a presidio (garrison) and a mission on the site of a Coahuiltecan Indian village.
		During the last decades of the 19th century San Antonio, as the starting point for the Chisholm Trail, became a major cattle center, where herds were assembled for the overland drives to the railheads in Kansas.
		Some Texan leaders, including Sam Houston, counseled the abandonment of San Antonio as impossible to defend with the small body of troops available, but the volunteers at the Alamo refused to retire from their exposed position.
	www.uwec.edu /freitard/groupandminority/sanantonio/history.htm (657 words)

	San Antonio Health Collaborative \| NACCHO
		The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District began phase 4, "Identifying Strategic Issues," in October 2002 and completed it in December 2002.
		In addition, the effort was renamed "Alliance for Community Health in San Antonio and Bexar County (Alliance)" in order to develop more local interest and to indicate that the process was moving quickly toward a collaborative action cycle.
		The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District invited facilitators from United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County to conduct the meetings.
	www.naccho.org /topics/infrastructure/MAPP/SanAntonioSpotlight.cfm (486 words)

	San Antonio, Texas
		With extension of San Antonio River actually flowing into heart of the center, river boats provide an unusual means for convention delegates to travel from riverside hotels to meetings.
		In addition to the Alamo, four other San Antonio missions were established by Franciscan friars in the early 18th Century.
		Mission San Antonio de Valero, later to become famous as the Alamo, was established in 1718, the first of five Spanish missions founded in San Antonio to Christianize and educate resident Indians.
	www.lnstar.com /mall/txtrails/santonio.htm (1373 words)

	Map of San Antonio de Bexar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		San Pedro Creek and the irrigation ditches around the Alamo were crossable at any point.
		The north side of the Alamo compound was a crumbling wall that was braced from the outside with a timber palisade.
		(It was heavily damaged during the siege of Bexar when it was used for target practice by Texan gunners.) The timbers could be climbed and the north wall became the focus of the final assault.
	heartofsanantonio.com /alamo/bexar.html (236 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		San Antonio de Béxar Presidio, the center of Spanish defense in western Texas, was founded by Martín de Alarcón
		Nine additional soldiers were on mission guard or escort duty, and four settlers and their families lived near the presidio, as did the families of the soldiers.
		Menchaca also reported that, although the soldiers at San Antonio de Béxar were well armed and well disciplined, the number was inadequate for so important an outpost, especially since there was no breastwork for defense and the area was exposed to frequent attacks by Indians.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/uqs2.html (935 words)

	SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR PRESIDIO
		an Antonio de Béjar Presidio, the center of Spanish defense in western Texas, was founded by Martín de Alarcón on May 5, 1718, on the west side of the San Antonio River one-fourth league from the San Antonio de Valero Mission.
		In May 1763, Luis Antonio Menchaca, who relieved Toribio de Urrutia as commander, reported that the garrison consisted of twenty-two men, of whom fifteen were assigned to mission guard duty, leaving five in addition to the captain and sergeant in the presidio.
		Menchaca also reported that, although the soldiers at San Antonio de Béjar were well armed and well disciplined, the number was inadequate for so important an outpost, especially since there was no breastwork for defense and the area was exposed to frequent attacks by Indians.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/adp/history/hispanic_period/presidio2.html (927 words)

	Project Overview
		The historic San Antonio River has long served as the heart of the city.
		A comprehensive, multi-year project is underway to restore and enhance 13 miles of the San Antonio River both north and south of downtown.
		A concerted community effort to revitalize the river began in 1998 when Bexar County, the City of San Antonio and the San Antonio River Authority created the San Antonio River Oversight Committee.
	www.sanantonioriver.org /overview.html (251 words)

	San Antonio : Walking Tours \| Frommers.com
		One of downtown San Antonio's great gifts to visitors on foot is its wonderfully meandering early pathways -- not laid out by drunken cattle drivers as has been wryly suggested, but formed by the course of the San Antonio River and the various settlements that grew up around it.
		At the creek's former headwaters, approximately 2 miles north of here, San Pedro Park was established in 1729 by a grant from the king of Spain; it's the second-oldest municipal park in the United States (the oldest being the Boston Common).
		The life of José Antonio Navarro, for whom the park is named, traces the history of Texas itself: He was born in Spanish territory, fought for Mexico's independence from Spain, and then worked to achieve Texas's freedom from Mexico.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/sanantonio/0027010008.html (1928 words)

	San Antonio Texas Bexar County Property Tax Appeals San Antonio Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		To determine a fair value, commonly accepted valuation techniques, such as the sales comparison, income, and cost approaches should be considered, and then the most appropriate method used.
		Using the district's standards for operating expenses and not making allowances for reserves, tenant finish out, or leasing commissions, is not typical for a knowledgeable investor.
		Most might agree that using a leased fee sale to obtain a reduction of a valuation is contrary to the determination of a correct value pursuant to the Texas Code and the Texas Constitution.
	www.pennin.com /San-Antonio-property-tax-appeals.htm (3259 words)

	The Five Spanish Missions of Old San Antonio
		A chain of five missions established along the San Antonio River in the 18th century became the largest concentration of Catholic missions in North America.
		One of the most attractive of the San Antonio missions, the church at Concepcion looks essentially as it did more than 200 years ago, when it stood at the center of local religious activity.
		Missions San Jose, San Juan, Concepcion, and Espada continue to operate as active parishes of the Catholic church and all are open to the public.
	www.lsjunction.com /facts/missions.htm (613 words)

	San Antonio Bar Association \| Welcome
		San Antonio Bar Association to sponsor swearing-in ceremonies for recently elected judges
		The San Antonio Bar Association will coordinate the swearing-in ceremonies for recently elected judges on Monday, January 1, 2007 in the Bexar County Justice Center’s Central Jury Room.
		This website brought to you by the San Antonio Bar Association and the SABA Technology Committee.
	www.sanantoniobar.org (138 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The siege of Bexar (San Antonio) became the first major campaign of the Texas Revolution.
		From San Francisco de la Espada Mission on October 27, Austin sent Bowie and Fannin forward to Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña Mission with ninety men to locate a position nearer the town for the army.
		Cos then resumed defensive positions in San Antonio and the Alamo, while the Texans established camps on the river above and below the town and grew to an army of 600 with reinforcements from East Texas led by Thomas J. Rusk.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/qeb1.html (1082 words)

	Amazon.com: San Antonio De Bexar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier: Books: Jesus F. De LA Teja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Its early history was one of isolation and often of neglect, but many of the settlers, veterans of frontier colonies farther south, founded San Antonio on centuries-old institutions.
		Jesús F. de la Teja is a professor of history at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos.
		It is a "must have" book for anyone interested in San Antonio's early days: an outstanding resource for the student of Texas history.
	www.amazon.com /San-Antonio-Bexar-Community-Northern/dp/0826317510 (1165 words)

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