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    Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares or simply Fray Antonio de Olivares (1630 - 1722) was a Spanish Franciscan who officiated at the first Catholic...
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    Francisco Solano. Fray Antonio de Olivares also built the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, on the west side of the San Antonio River, approximately 1 mile...
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    Spanish crown. With that goal, in 1675 an expedition formed by Fray Antonio de Olivares, Fray Francisco Hidalgo, Fray Juan Larios, and Fernando del Bosque...
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    Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Duke of Sanlúcar, 3rd Count of Olivares, GE, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares (taken by joining both his countship...
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  • Olivares may refer to: Olivares, Spain, a municipality in Seville province, Spain Olivares de Júcar, a municipality in Cuenca province, Spain Olivares...
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    Mission San Antonio de Valero (later famous as The Alamo) to Fray Antonio de Olivares. On May 5, 1718, he commissioned the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar ("Béjar"...
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    of the Indian village on the banks of the San Antonio River ..." to Franciscan priest Antonio de Olivares . In 1729, King Philip V of Spain decreed the...
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  • Empire. Olivares was a native of Setúbal and was a Sephardic Jew. His mother was a New Christian by the name of Violante Lopes. His father, António de Olivares...
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    Martín de Alarcón founded San Antonio for Spain by establishing San Antonio de Valero Mission in 1718, Franciscan priest Antonio de Olivares and the...
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  • elected by a council to lead the expedition of Antonio de Olivares and Isidro de Espinosa to San Antonio, Texas and the Colorado River of Texas. The expeditionary...
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