1.09 - San Antonio Revolts
The first decade of the 19th century brought more tumult to San Antonio than she had experienced in the entire century before. The missions were shuttered, a menacing new neighbor arrived on Texas's Eastern border, and a civil war erupted in town between republican and royalist factions, as San Antonio took on a tragically leading role in Mexico's War of Independence.
Recommended resource: David R. McDonald, José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas
