Manuscript/Mixed Material Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Report to the Secretary of State and of the Department of War

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, September 30, 1819

Headings

• -  Mexico--History
• -  Mexican-American Border Region
• -  Manuscripts

Genre

• Manuscripts

Notes

• -  No. 101 of Apodaca's series. Subjects treated: visit of the United States ship Macedonia at Acapulco (leaves 1-1v); sighting of another ship off Punto de Tabo (leaf 1v); his insistence on maintaining a force at the Punto de Maquili to prevent the Chileans from supplying the insurgents with arms (leaves 1v-2); treaty of peace with the Navajo Indians (leaves 2-2v); reports of expeditions organized in St. Louis under Benjamin Offallen and Talbot Chambers, possibly threatening New Mexico (leaves 2v-4); reported invasion of Texas by Anglo-American adventurers under General James Long in collusion with the pirates in Galveston and preparations for defense (leaves 4-7); request for replacement of soldiers (leaf 7); general peace in Western and Eastern Interior Provinces (leaves 7-7v); peace in Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí and shipments of silver (leaf 7v); actions of the Division of Guadalajara in Guanajuato and Michoacán (leaves 7v-8); actions of the force from Valladolid in the tierra caliente (leaves 8-8v); 154 amnesties granted in the tierra fría of Michoacán (leaves 8v-9); defensive fortification in the district of Acapulco (leaves 9-9v); the insurgents in La Goleta in the jurisdiction of Temascaltepec under Vicente Guerrero and actions against them (leaves 9v-13); peace along the highway from Mexico City to Valladolid (leaf 13); actions in the Province of Guanajuato, especially against the Ortizes and their followers in the Sierra de Guanajuato (leaves 13-14); shipment of silver from Guanajuato (leaf 14); 123 more amnesties in the Sierra Gorda (leaf 14); skirmishes in the district of Querétaro (leaf 14v); action against insurgents in the Sierra de Jalpa (leaf 14v); quiet along the road to Querétaro, in the district of Apan, and in Puebla and Oaxaca (leaves 14v-15); safe arrival of the convoy of silver from Mexico City and Puebla in Veracruz on September 6 (leaves 15-15v); security of the roads leading out from Veracruz (leaf 15v); action against rebels in the Cerro de Coyuxquihin (leaves 15v-16); income to the royal treasury (leaf 16); memorial services for King Charles IV and his wife (leaf 16); and 433 letters of amnesty granted during the month (leaf 16). Signed.quiet along the road to Querétaro, in the district of Apan, and in Puebla and Oaxaca (leaves 14v-15); safe arrival of the convoy of silver from Mexico City and Puebla in Veracruz on September 6 (leaves 15-15v); security of the roads leading out from Veracruz (leaf 15v); action against rebels in the Cerro de Coyuxquihin (leaves 15v-16); income to the royal treasury (leaf 16); memorial services for King Charles IV and his wife (leaf 16); and 433 letters of amnesty granted during the month (leaf 16). Signed.

Source Collection

• Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1877

Repository

• Manuscript Division

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss31013.mss31013-16203

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