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The East Texas missions had failed to scare off the French. The few towns that had been established in Texas by the time Stephen Austin came to Texas in the early 1820s had been founded in connection with the missions - San Antonio, Goliad and Victoria, Nacogdoches, and the Rio Grande River region.

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Your answer: They weren't scary enough to scare off the French. The way they could have prevented that is: Train harder, Fight harder, and Play there tactics right, and smart.

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