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  2. Spanish missions in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish missions in Louisiana were religious outposts in Spanish Louisiana (La Luisiana) region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, located within the present-day U.S. states of Louisiana and East Texas. They were established by Spanish missionaries for Indian Reductions of the local Native Americans.

  3. List of missionaries to New Spain - Wikipedia

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    During the Spanish colonization of the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries, the Spanish Empire established many hundreds of Catholic missions throughout their colonies in the Americas. These missions were founded and staffed by numerous Catholic religious orders of regular clergy. The following is a list of these missionaries to New Spain.

  4. Lists of Spanish colonial missions of the Roman Catholic ...

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    This is a list of lists of Spanish missions in the Americas. The Spanish colonial government coordinated with the Roman Catholic Church to establish churches throughout their New World possessions. Jesuit missions in North America

  5. Spanish missions in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The missions facilitated the expansion of the Spanish empire through the religious conversion of the indigenous peoples occupying those areas. While the Spanish Crown dominated the political, economic, and social realms of the Americas and people indigenous to the region, the Catholic Church dominated the religious and spiritual realm.

  6. Visit 10 sacred Spanish missions and sites in San Antonio to ...

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    Established as Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña in East Texas and aimed for the Hasinai people, it moved to San Antonio in 1731 (after a year on the Colorado River in ...

  7. Los Adaes - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish countered by founding two more missions just west of Natchitoches, including San Miguel de los Adaes (for a total of six missions in the region). [9] The latter two missions were located in a disputed area; France claimed the Sabine River to be the western boundary of colonial Louisiana, while Spain claimed the Red River to be the ...

  8. Bridges: Bernardo de Galvez governed Spanish Louisiana in ...

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    The sprawling territory, which included Louisiana, large portions of East Texas and the Red River Valley, were under his command. Bridges: Bernardo de Galvez governed Spanish Louisiana in American ...

  9. Category:Spanish missions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Spanish missions in the colonial United States — established in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México), with sites/structures now in the present day southern and western United States. v t