History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1 Page: 78
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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
penses of the garrisons in Texas, a considerable reduction was
made in the number of the forces stationed at the various forts.
The post on the Neches was entirely suppressed; the force
at the Adaes was reduced from one hundred men to sixty, at
the bay of St. Bernard from ninety to forty, and at San Anto-
nio from fifty-three to,forty-three -thus leaving, as the entire
force of the three garrisons, only one hundred and forty-three
men.*
When we consider that the different Indian tribes of Texas
could at that period muster a force of ten thousand warriors
that the Spaniards were by no means their favorites ; that the
Camanches and Apaches, and other tribes in the interior, were
naturally warlike; and that the troops in the garrisons took
little pains to secure their friendship-we shall see at once
the bad policy of this reduction of the forces. But they relied
upon the friendship of the French, the good offices of St. Denis,
and an early arrival of the new colonists. St. Penis, however,
was otherwise engaged. The once-powerful tribe of the Natchez
had been driven from the banks of the Mississippi, and was
hanging in a threatening attitude around his position at Natchi-
toches. They had determined to attack him; and, to prevent
the Spaniards from giving him aid, had the address to stir up
the Apaches to assail the post of Bexar, and thus bring on a
general war between the Indians and Europeans. The Apa-
ches, originally of the same tribe with the Cainanches, were
possessed of like traits of character. They occupied the coun-
try between San Antonio and Santa F. Their principal vil-
lages, in 1730, were about the pass of Bandera, in the Guada-
lupe mountains, some fifty miles from the post of Bexar. From
these strongholds they.made their forays, not only upon the
settlement at San Antonio, but extended their depredations
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Yoakum, H. (Henderson K.), 1810-1856. History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1, book, 1855; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2385/m1/86/: accessed May 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.