San Antonio is the oldest major city in Texas, but the receipts show it almost didn't survive. In 1718, Spanish missionaries founded Mission San Antonio de Valero—the Alamo. By 1731, Spain sent 56 settlers from the Canary Islands to create San Fernando de Béxar, the official founding of San Antonio. For over 100 years, it was the most important settlement in Texas—capital of Spanish Texas, then Mexican Texas. But by 1836 when the Alamo fell, the population was under 2,000. After the Texas Revolu
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