San Juan Batista > Guerrero Coahuila Mexico
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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.
St. Denis had returned to San Juan Bautista and married Manuela in early 1716.
He travels in the years 1716-1717 to East Texas to participate in the founding of six missions and a presidio.
He returns in April 1717 to San Juan Bautista, but with the death of Louis XIV and the conclusion of the War of Spanish Succession, French-Spanish cooperation has ended.
St. Denis is then sent to Mexico City for a second time but escapes before being hauled to Spain as a prisoner.