Benjamin Muse, Jr. Collection Relating to Mexico, Texas, and California 1830-1844

Alamán, Lucas, 1792-1853

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tr6rkv (person)

Statesman, political leader, and historian. Born 1792 in Guanajuato; died 1853 in Mexico City. Elected in 1821 as deputy for Guanajuato to the Cortes de Cádiz. Ministro de Relaciones Interiores e Exteriores (1823-1825). Established the Companía Unida de Minas and the first foundry in Mexico after independence (1825). Administrator of the estate of the Duque de Terranova y Monteleone. Member of the Poder Ejecutivo after the 1829 Plan de Jalapa, and Ministro de Relaciones (1830-1832) in t...

Paredes y Arrillaga, Mariano, 1797-1849

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k28b7 (person)

President of Mexico; general. Born 1797 and died 1849 in Mexico City. Began military career in 1812; offices held include: brigadier general (1832); Minister of War (Dec. 1838); military governor of Jalisco (1841-January 28, 1843); Comandante General of Mexico (1841). Led movement against President José Joaquín de Herrera on December 14, 1845. Named interim president of Mexico on January 4, 1846; elected president by Congress on June 12, 1846. Paredes took command of the Mexican Army on June 2...

Illanes, Tomás

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69t84w7 (person)

Victoria, Guadalupe, 1786-1843

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69c6xj1 (person)

Army officer elected president of Mexico in 1824. Original name: Manuel Felix Fernandez; changed name to show devotion to Mexican independence. From the description of Guadalupe Victoria correspondence, 1823 September 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981600 ...

Bravo, Nicolás, 1786-1854

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mc96p2 (person)

Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kp94bj (person)

Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67p92c2 (person)

Stephen F. Austin, son of Moses Austin, initiated the Anglo-American colonization of Texas by assuming ownership of a land grant given to his father by the Spanish government in 1821. From the description of Austin, Stephen F., papers, 1819-1821. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 20430891 Stephen Fuller Austin was born on November 3, 1793 in Virginia to Maria and Moses Austin. He was educated in Connecticut and at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kent...

Bustamante, Anastasio, 1780-1853

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6445md5 (person)

Filisola, Vicente

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64c9f30 (person)

Urréa, José, 17979-1849.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gc8hx9 (person)

Muse, Benjamin Jr.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6490qq8 (person)

Gritten, Eduardo (Edward C.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q97sz5 (person)

Guerrero, Vicente, 1782-1831

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hq3zsr (person)

President of Mexico, military leader. Born 1782 in Tixtla; died 1831 in Cuilapan. Guerrero began his military career in 1810. He was commissioned captain by José María Morelos before the attack on Taxco, was made colonel in 1814 by Juan Nepomuceno Rosains, and received the rank of general from Agustín de Iturbide. After Iturbide was removed as emperor, Guerrero was named General de División, and became a member of the Supremo Poder Ejecutivo which governed until 1824. Guerrero ascended to th...

García Conde, Francisco

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j26h39 (person)

Ugartechea, Domingo de.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q693c0 (person)

González-Ynclán, Ignacio, d. ca. 1745

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g6145h (person)

Bowie, James, d. 1836

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zg72g3 (person)

The son of Reason (or Rezin) and Elve Bowie, James (Jim) Bowie (1796?-1836) moved around the southern United States in his early life, finally settling on a plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, in around 1809. During the War of 1812, James and his brother Rezin Pleasant Bowie enlisted in the Second Division, Consolidated, of the U.S. Army. After the war, the brothers bought slaves from Jean Laffite and traded them in St. Landry Parish, until raising $65,0000, which James and Rezin ...

Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mp52hr (person)

Epithet: President of Mexico British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000203 Commander in chief of Mexican Army and President of Mexico during war with United States (1846-1848). Letter thanks Don Juan Valdivia for providing lumber and use of his estate for defense against possible Spanish invasion (1829). From the description of Antonio Loṕez de Santa Anna letter, 1829. (University of the Pacific)...

Ampudia, Pedro de, 1803-1868

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60p260z (person)