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San Antonio
San Antonio is a city in south-central Texas founded by the Spanish in 1718 as a mission and presidio on the San Antonio River. It became the chief settlement and from 1772 the capital of Spanish Texas, and its Mission San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo, was besieged in 1836 during the Texas Revolution. Mexican forces briefly occupied the town twice in 1842.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). San Antonio. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/san-antonio
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