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Texas: Manuel Rosas

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Texas: Manuel Rosas

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Auction Date:2010 Sep 15 @ 22:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS in Spanish, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.25 x 8.25, November 24, 1835. Letter to Jesus de la Garza, in which rosa talks about his assignment. In part (translated): “providing for the 100 men that Col. Ugartechea brought with the object of their joining the troops that the celebrated Jose Juan Sanchez is bringing…if in some way I do not find a man to help me…I believe I’ll do crazy…My spirit is dampened. My will, never …” In very good condition, with damp staining to lower portion of letter, lightly over beginning of signature, but not affecting legibility, central horizontal and vertical fold, and light show-through from writing on reverse.

From The Handbook of Texas Online, in part, “In 1835 Ugartechea was military commandant of Coahuila and Texas in command of the forces at San Antonio de Béxar Presidio, struggling with deficiencies in funding, supplies, and manpower. Although 200 men appeared on his rolls, only half that number were in active service…Colonel Ugartechea commanded a unit of cavalry that slipped through the siege forces on November 12 [1835] and made its way in about ten days to the Rio Grande to seek reinforcements. On November 26 he guided a force of 454 conscripts and 173 veteran troops from Laredo to relieve the centralist army under Cos at Béxar. Their arrival on December 8 actually increased the burden of supply on the centralist army and helped to precipitate its surrender on December 9…Ugartechea returned to Laredo with Cos’s forces. He came back to Texas with the Mexican army in 1836.”