Welcome to a new history of old San Antonio.

Episode 8, San Antonio Strong.

I'm Brandon Seal.

I'm a city of San Antonio

Tonight I'm looking at your lovely life

Colonel Domingo Cabello and Robles had first seen combat at the age of 17.

Born in Spain, he served for the first part of his career in Cuba, where he would fend off English attacks for seven years.

By the age of 24, he had been promoted to Major and tasked with the defense of Florida

against both European enemies and native ones. And in 1762, he was given the

governorship of Nicaragua, which he held until 1776 when he was sent to San Antonio to

become the new governor of Texas. But for all that Cavalio and Robles had seen,

he hadn't experienced anything like San Antonio. In Cuba, Florida, and Nicaragua, he had never had to

deal with civilian politics. Yet here, in San Antonio, he walked straight into the hornet's

nest of political unrest caused by General Teodor de Croix's attempt to tax the Texas cattle

business out of existence.

As cattle was one of the few cash-producing activities in the province, the general's tax was seen as a direct, malicious attack on San Antonio's livelihood, and it was left to Governor Cabello

and Robles to enforce it, for which his popularity would permanently suffer.

Even more worrisome for the new governor was the situation with the natives.

After a hard-won peace against the Apaches in 1749 and the Battle of the Twin Villages against the Comanches in 1759,

a fragile decade of comparative calm allowed San Antonio's to catch their breath.

But by 1770, a new generation of Indian warriors had come of age on the plains, each itching to live up to the legends of their fathers.

The Comanche's

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