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, November 30, 1819

Headings

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

Genre

• Manuscripts

Notes

• -  No. 104 in Apodaca's series. Subjects treated: sighting of an unidentified ship off the Punto de Tabo (leaf 1); anchoring of two foreign ships in San Blas harbor on November 16, the one an English vessel Hydra , the other an Anglo-American vessel Triton —both on whaling expeditions (leaves 1–1v); defensive preparations against the possibility of an attack on New Mexico by the previously mentioned Anglo-American expedition from St. Louis to the Yellowstone River (leaves 1v–4v); request for more troops (leaf 4v); preparations for an attack against the Anglo-American adventurers in Nacogdoches and report of an agreement between their leader James Long and the pirates in Galveston, also a report of an agreement between Luis de Onís, Spanish minister to the United States, and Swiss businessmen, allowing them to colonize 20 square leagues in Texas with Swiss and German colonists (leaves 4v–6); negotiations with Mariano Renovales (leaves 6–6v); shipment of silver from Chihuahua, Durango, and El Rosario (leaf 6v); peace in Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí and a silver shipment from the former (leaf 6v); actions of the Division of Guadalajara in the Province of Guanajuato, driving some of the Ortiz faction out of the area (leaves 6ví7); actions in highland Michoacán (leaves 7–8); and in lowland Michoacán, resulting in many requests for amnesty (leaf 8); defense of the Pacific coast in the region of Zacatula (leaves 8–8v); two weekly convoys from the area of Acapulco (leaf 8v); an encounter with Guerrero near the Hacienda of Canario in the province of Michoacán in which a number of the insurgent officers were captured or killed (leaves 8v–9); continued peace along the road to Valladolid (leaf 9); action against the remnants of the insurgent force from La Goleta (leaves 9–9v); actions in the Bajío of Guanajuato and Sierra de Jalpa (leaves 9v–10v); actions against the Ortizes in the Sierra de Guanajuato (leaf 10v); shipment of silver from Guanajuato (leaf 10v); destruction of resistance in the Sierra de Jalpa (leaves 10v–11); amnesties in Querétaro (leaf 11); peace along the highway to Querétaro, in the military district of Apan and in the Provinces of Puebla, Oaxaca, and Veracruz (leaves 11–12); income to the royal treasury (leaf 12); 1,172 letters of amnesty granted during the present month (leaves 12–12v); the extent of his line of military operations and the exposure of the realm to external attack (leaf 12v). 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.mss31013-16205

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