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time, became the provincial capital, and Alonso de Le6n, member
of a prominent family of Nuevo Le6n, became the first governor
of Coahuila.
In 1683 the College of the Holy Cross was founded at Queretaro
for the express purpose of training missionaries for frontier work.
Under these Quereterans, the mission work in Coahuila steadily
advanced, and by 1701 settlements had reached the Rio Grande
and the mission of San Juan Bautista had been founded there,
in the vicinity of modern Eagle Pass, Texas.
If the Spaniards had lost much of their interest in, and knowl-
edge of, the lands to which Spain's earlier explorers gave her claim,
the other nations of Europe had not failed to improve their oppor-
tunities. England and Holland had settlements on the Atlantic
seaboard, and France was exploring Canada and the Great Lakes
and Mississippi regions; all three nations had gained a foothold
in the West Indies. Spain protested against these encroachments,
but was powerless to prevent them, and in 1670 she was forced to
make a treaty acknowledging England's right to the territory
which she had acquired. No such understanding was reached with
France, and the ambitious projects of Louis XIV caused growing
uneasiness to Spain. In 1678 it became known that Pefialosa, a
discredited Spanish governor of New Mexico, had laid before the
French officials a plan by which he proposed to conquer for France
the rich provinces of Quivira and Teguayo, located to the east of
New Mexico, and of which he professed to have personal knowl-
edge. As a preliminary to the proposed conquest of these regions,
Pefialosa offered to establish a port on the Gulf, which also would
serve as a base to conquer the mines of Nueva Vizcaya. While the
Spanish authorities, in their accustomed leisurely manner, were
discussing measures to be taken to forestall this and other reported
French plans of aggression, word came that a French colony had
already been established on the Gulf coast by La Salle, in the very
region which had lately regained interest in the eyes of the
Spaniards.
The presence of La Salle's colony did not become known to the
Spaniards until many months after its establishment, and then,
quite by accident, they heard of it from a French prisoner found
aboard a captured pirate ship. La Salle's career prior to this192
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, July 1923 - April, 1924, periodical, 1924; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101086/m1/198/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.