What were failures in the east Texas mission and how could they have been prevented?

Your 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.

Explanation:

This is in my own words not copied from the internet : )

Usually a religion spreads from word to mouth. You get a group of people to believe in something and then they tell their friends about it and then they believe and then the process keeps on going and going. That’s why you have people that are Christian going to Africa and helping kids, because they want to spread the word of Jesus Christ to them.