St. Denis, soon after founding Natchitoches, had…

1714 CE

St. Denis, soon after founding Natchitoches, had traveled to the lands of the Hasinai Confederacy and from there to Spanish outposts on the Rio Grande.

At San Juan Bautista, Coahuila, Commander Diego Ramón places St. Denis under house arrest and confiscates his goods while awaiting instructions from Mexico City on what to do with the foreigner charged with violating Spanish trade restrictions.

In the meantime, St. Denis, claiming that his intention had been merely to establish trade, courts and wins the promise of marriage from Ramón's beautiful step-granddaughter, Manuela Sanchez.

St. Denis is ordered to Mexico City and defends himself well enough to be appointed the commissary officer of the Ramón expedition charged with founding Spanish missions in East Texas.

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San Juan Batista > Guerrero Coahuila Mexico View →

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Louis Juchereau de St. Denis View →

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Hasinai, or Teja (Amerind tribe) View → New France (French Colony) View → New Spain, Viceroyalty of View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Texas, Spanish View → Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of View → Louisiana (New France) View →

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Colonization of the Americas, Spanish View → Colonization of the Americas, French View →

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