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, October 31, 1819

Headings

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

Genre

• Manuscripts

Notes

• -  No. 102 in Apodaca's series. Subjects treated: sighting of two unidentified ships from the Ensenada de Aticla on October 15 (leaf 1); survivors of a shipwrecked English whaler in Lower California (leaves 1-1v); defense of California (leaves 1v-3); peace with the Navajos (leaf 3); no further information on the Anglo-American threat to New Mexico from St. Louis but continued vigilance (leaves 3v-4); contribution of 28,343 pesos by the citizens of New Mexico for support of the war (leaf 4); defense of Texas against adventurers from Louisiana (leaves 4-6); general peace in the Interior Provinces (leaf 6); silver shipments from Durango, Chihuahua, El Rosario, and Cosala (leaves 6-6v); continued peace in Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, with the exception of an incursion from Guanajuato (leaf 6v); silver shipments from Zacatecas and Potosí (leaf 6v); actions of the troops of Guadalajara and silver shipments from there (leaf 6v); actions of the troops from Valladolid in the tierra caliente, apparently cut off by insurgents from La Goleta (leaves 6v-7); actions in the highlands of Michoacán (leaves 7-7v); actions of the Division of Acapulco in the coastal region of Zacatula (leaves 7v-8); unsuccessful attack on Zacualpan by insurgents from La Goleta (leaves 8-8v); two weekly convoys of produce and merchandise from the district of Acapulco (leaves 8v-9); dispersal of the insurgents Guerrero, Izquierdo, Asencio, Campos, et al., who had been occupying the mountain of La Goleta (leaves 9-10v); capture and execution of Vicente Vargas, who had violated his amnesty (leaves 10v-11v); an action by the division of Ixtlahuaca in the otherwise peaceful region of the road from Mexico City to Valladolid (leaf 11v); actions in Guanajuato, especially against the Ortizes and their followers (leaves 11v-12v); shipment of silver from Guanajuato (leaf 12v); pacification of the region of Jalpa (leaf 12v); an action in the district of Querétaro (leaf 12v); peace in the Sierra Gorda (leaves 12v-13); a single action along the road from Mexico City to Querétaro (leaf 13); a silver shipment from Zimapan (leaf 13); continued peace in the military district of Apan (leaf 13-13v); silver shipment from Pachuca (leaf 13v); continued peace in the provinces of Puebla, Oaxaca, and Veracruz, with regular commerce from Veracruz (leaves 13v-14); income to the royal treasury (leaves 14-14v); and 255 letters of amnesty granted during the present month (leaf 14v). 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.mss31013-16204

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