By Terry Kelley In the early morning hours of March 16, 1758, 2,000 hostile Norteño Indians riding horses stolen from the Spanish and armed with French muskets, crossed the San Saba River to destroy the Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba’. The mission was burnt to the ground, and twelve Spaniards, including Father Alonso Giraldo de Terreros from Menard’s Sister City of Cortegana, Spain, and Fa...
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