38 Such a division would definitely have separated the commands of Mier y
Terán and de la Garza, but the idea was not being proposed for the first
time. A similar recommendation had been made in his communication of
October 20, 1829. Mier y Terán to Minister of War, Tampico, October 20,
1829, and San Fernando, February 27, 1830, Ibid.
