34 Replying to a request for information on the number of troops destined
for Texas, Facio sent Alamán the following on February 16: "Federal
Infantry: The Twelfth Batallion, 250; State Troops (Infantry) : From San
Luis Potosi, 600; from Zacatecas, 400; from Nuevo León, 300; from Tamau-
lipas, 300; from Coahuila-Texas, 200; Federal Cavalry: the Ninth Regi-
ment, 315; the Ninth Company of Presidiales of the Eastern Interior States,
300; State Troops (Cavalry): from San Luis Potosi, 300; Total, 2,965.
Alleine Howren, "Causes and Origin of the Decree of April 6, 1830," in
The
Southwestern
Historical
Quarterly,
XVI, 404-405.
