San Antonio's Remarkable History by Adam Scott San Antonio is currently the seventh-largest elty in the United States, but not many know the

remarkable history behind this modern-day metropolis in 1691, a group of Spanish explorers

happened upon a tiver and a Native American settlement in what is now the state of Texas. They

named both "San Antonio" because it was june 13, she feast day of Saint Anthony. Soon, the rtver

became home to a lor, a Catholic mission, and a community, all of which they called San Antonio

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For the next 100 years. San Antonio was mostly under Spanish control. In the early 1800s, the

Spanisch turned the old mission into a fort called the Alamo Texans took control of the fort in

1835. Shortly after General Santa Anna arrived with an army 2.000 strong. Fewer than 200

soldiers and volunteers gathered in the Alamo, but they held off the Mexican army for 13 days

On March 2, 1836. Texas d