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Mexican revolutionary captures San Antonio
On this day in 1813, Spanish governor Santísima Trinidad de Salcedo
surrendered the city of San Antonio to forces under José Bernardo
Maximiliano Gutiérrez de Lara, commander-in-chief of the filibustering
Gutiérrez-Magee expedition. Gutiérrez intended to set up a republican
government in Texas and use Texas as a base for operations designed to
liberate Mexico from Spanish rule. The scheme ended in August with the
defeat of Gutiérrez's successor as head of the provisional government,
José Álvarez de Toledo, but the indefatigable Gutiérrez went on to become
involved with such filibusters and revolutionaries as Louis Michel Aury,
Francisco Xavier Mina, and James Long, among others.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- GUTIERREZ DE LARA, JOSE BERNARDO MAXIMILIANO
- GUTIERREZ-MAGEE EXPEDITION
- MAGEE, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM
- TOLEDO Y DUBOIS, JOSE ALVAREZ DE
- AURY, LOUIS MICHEL
- LONG, JAMES
- MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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