Manuscript/Mixed Material Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Report to the Secretary of State and of the Department of War
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Title
- Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Report to the Secretary of State and of the Department of War
Names
- [Juan Ruiz de Apodaca], El Conde del Venadito
Created / Published
- Mexico, July 31, 1819
Headings
- - Mexico--History
- - Mexican-American Border Region
- - Manuscripts
Genre
- Manuscripts
Notes
- - No. 95 of Apodaca's series. Subjects treated: the appearance of three supposed enemy vessels off the coast of San Blas (leaf 1); the departure of warships and troops to Monterey in California and reports from California (leaves 1-2); treaty of peace with Apaches at Tucson (leaf 2); the organization of a piratical force in Galveston to make raids in Tampico and Campeche (leaves 2-3); a description of the Yellowstone or Roche Jaune River made by Engineer Bartolomé Lafón (leaf 3); a flood in San Antonio, Tex., and assistance given to the town (leaves 3v-4); the arrival of silver from Chihuahua, Durango, El Rosario, Zacatecas, and Guadalajara (leaf 4); continued action by Colonel Matías Martín y Aguirre against the rebels in the Province of Valladolid (leaves 4-4v); surrender of Marshal Anaya (leaf 4v); action against Huerta, Cervantes, Guerrero, Bedolfa, Montesdoca, and other insurgents (leaves 4v-5); construction of fortifications at Puruándiro (leaf 5); actions of the division of Acapulco, especially against Guerrero's men (leaves 5-6v); efforts to bring to submission the priest Izquierdo and his followers who had fortified themselves in the Peñas de San Pedro, Serranía de Goleta (leaves 6v-7v); a battle at Sultepec (leaf 7v); state of peace in localities along the road from Mexico City to Valladolid (leaves 7v-8); actions of the troops of the Province of Guanajuato, notably the killing of Andrés Delgado, alias El Giro (leaves 8-8v); resultant surrender of a number of insurgents (leaf 8v); expectation that the other rebels in the Bajío will request amnesty (leaf 9); actions of the division of Querétaro (leaf 9-9v), state of peace along the road to Querétaro, in the military sector of Apan and in the Provinces of Puebla, Oaxaca, and most of Veracruz (leaves 9v-10); the daily service of pack trains from Veracruz to other parts of the realm (leaves 10-10v); income to the royal treasury (leaves 10v-11), memorial ceremonies for the deceased wife of King Ferdinand VII, Queen María Isabel Francisca de Braganza y de Borbón (leaf 11); and the issuance of 188 letters of amnesty during the present month (leaves 11-11v). Signed.
Source Collection
- Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1877
Repository
- Manuscript Division
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