A New History of Old San Antonio
Summary: This series covers the history of San Antonio from its founding 300 years ago until the arrival of the railroad 160 years later. Until that time and even well after it, San Antonio is one of the most isolated communities in the Americas, a part of several different cultural traditions, yet always somehow apart from each. This year, the 300th anniversary of the founding of San Antonio, join us as we explore the history of early San Antonio as you’ve never heard it before, taking advantage of new research and recently uncovered documents. Welcome to a New History of Old San Antonio. -- As seen on KSAT12 News and the San Antonio Business Journal! --
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Newcomers integrate themselves into the fighting units of Old San Antonians and quickly learn the lessons of frontier warfare.
The Battle of the Alamo as you've never heard it before.
Centralists and Federalists clash in San Antonio over the course of a two-month long siege that culminates in five days of brutal house-to-house fighting.
Mexico rises in revolt against Santa Anna's dictatorship.
San Antonians take up the defense of the immigrants in their midst and threaten to rip the new Mexican nation apart if their hardwon freedoms aren't respected.
San Antonians discover their ideological alignment with the new arrivals in their midst.
San Antonians take control of their own destiny - for a few years anyway - under a newly independent Mexico.
San Antonio reaps the terrible consequences of defying the Spanish Crown.
San Antonio declares its independence and takes on the leadership of the fledgling Mexican Independence movement.
San Antonio takes on a tragically leading role in Mexico's War of Independence from Spain.
In 1790, San Antonians finally win peace along the frontier from their old foes: the Apaches and the Comanches...though at a terrible cost.
In 1772, San Antonio becomes the capital of Texas and the first great Texas cattle boom ensues.
In 1759, San Antonians launch an expedition 400 miles into Comanche territory.
After thirty years of constant harrasment by the Apaches, San Antonians do what few other frontier peoples ever could: beat them and force them to seek peace.
Between 1718 and 1768, Spanish friars and Native American converts move nearly 1 million metric tons of limestone around the San Antonio River valley and erect the UNESCO World Heritage San Antonio Missions.
